This is a tough question because the future is constantly changing. To be more specific, my situation and desire are constantly changing. The way I see it, this is another version of the very question: who am I and what is my purpose?

Looking into my inventory, I already have some of the item to be hints for an answer that can leave me satisfied for at least 6 months. Like the professor Utonium, I combined the knowledge I consume, my hand-ons experience and my imagination as the chemical X to produce these Powerpuff girls:

• healthy and fit mentally and physically: buddhism is a new discovery recently and it has some real effect on me. I like the idea of finding the balance between being spiritual and materialistic. I am still not appealed by the life of giving all up and live like a beggar but I am keen on living a minimal life to get rid of poison in life and doing good daily. I love running too, it offer me an aesthetic body and balance out the downside of doing IT job.
• Still work on IT: it’s fun and profitable. There’s still so much thing for me to explore in this space. I might switch job but high chance it will not leave this domain.
• do not have a full-time boss: i was gonna write ‘being a businessman’ or such but I want to be more direct. I consider my discipline will be my new boss and I believe I am strong enough to be my own boss. the concern I have on this is my ability to withstand pressure and digest failures. Further than that, my whole life I have been following someone’s order, if I want to go on this path, most of the time I will be making a todo list for myself. In five years I want to have only a part-time job but my income still see no difference - that is 80 hours saved a month to do anything I want.
• be around people who feel my motivation: not much reasoning needed on this, it is just in the nature of being a human. I have isolated myself for a while due to my attitude and I did not like the taste. I look forwards to finding more people who share my interest and situation so that we can share on the same belief. Enough belief to bring something from mere thought into reality.
• good enough financial infrastructure: I want to have an infrastructure to fund for my life & dream. Rough idea would be a valuable real estate, a car and a good business that bring cashflow. Enough money for rainy days, enough money for healthy lifestyle, enough money to pursue genuine interest and enough money to make sure the next generation can have a proper launch. I want to have just enough money so that I only have to think of it 20% or less of my lifetime.
• do my best as a provider, as a guardian: As a provider, I want to give my son better food, better education, better inspiration comparing to my parent who have already done a fair job raising me. I want to create an ideal environment for my own wife to find out her way and a comfortable zone for my parents to live in but I guess they already have that and I am grateful for that although there’s something on the mental side I really hope I can contribute. As a guardian, I want to have enough surviving skill to keep my family safe.
• Still carry nerdy things around: I am not a robot, I dont want to be productive all the time. To be honest, I love distraction and during this life I found 2 gifts: nature and music. And just like video games, once I like it, I want to be good at it. The gaps for improvement are endless but I just want to be good enough to have fun and do not get burnt out while pursuing them.

The list was written with no priority in mind and it might change soon. But I am glad I spent about a day contemplating on this. 2024 is still fresh and naive in my eyes. What I wrote above is pretty optimist but I tried my best to keep it as rational as possible (if you ever heard of Young Naval). And believe me folks, I am curious about how this will age too.

Happy new year everyone, thanks for sticking around for another year.

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