Thanking Myself for This Year

I am participating in Yeku's submission project.

Looking back on this year, I honestly think it's hard to reflect because there were so many events.

In early spring, there was the moving commotion, which helped me understand my family better. I decided that I would go my own way.

In the summer, on the road I trudged home on, it should have been intensely hot from the setting sun, but my body was deathly cold, and my tears had gone somewhere due to the confusion.

During the long summer and autumn, I took a leave of absence and threw myself into making rolled omelets, eating bagels, and reading, and the heat passed by without me even noticing.

I never expected this kind of December at the beginning of this year, and I thought my hands would be swollen and stinging with chilblains this winter too.

I quit that job and am now job hunting at a relaxed pace. I'm on a break.

The kitchen assistant job I quit was a lot of fun. There was no fault in the work itself; I found things I want to try in the future, and I felt a sense of fulfillment every day.

I learned that I love eating very much and that I am more passionate about food than I had thought.

But I was unsuited for this kitchen assistant job in many ways.

No matter how hard I tried or how much I stretched myself, that effort didn't reach the target values set by my boss, and the vector of my efforts didn't align.

It is difficult for me to work with the flexibility required to keep up when bosses change or the workplace direction shifts.

It's sad, but it's a fact.

It's sad, but it's a fact.

I think this was a year where I savored those words as if chewing on them over and over.

But I am not that discouraged by the fact that it is "sad but true" anymore.

I love cooking, and my desire to work in the food industry hasn't changed.

It was just that being a "staff cafeteria kitchen assistant" didn't suit me.

Thank you for your hard work.

Let's look for a different path again.

I thought about many things and struggled a lot; I did well.

Thank you for doing your best for a whole year.

Whether things went well or not, I have no regrets.

Next year, surely a different path will open up.

Let's envision a happy and wonderful future and live it.

[Today's Senryu]
Theme: "Organizing"
Move back and front separately, good posture

[Today's English Composition]
You say I'm smiling? Why do you think that is? Because something unpleasant happened. I felt like I should at least keep a smile on my face.
Am I smiling? Guess why. Something bad happened, and I felt like I should at least look like I'm smiling.

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