After returning home from my semester of travels, I was faced with the classic “what now?”. I’m at the point of another transition period of my life (probably the biggest one yet), as I wrap up the last year of my education and head off to the real world. This transition has been on my mind forever, as I’ve always known college would come to an end, but I feel just as unprepared for it as I did my freshman year.

What makes the transition so complicated for me to process is the fact that I have so many different paths I can take, or at least attempt to take. All other transition periods in my life have been directed down a linear path, as it’s essentially been a series of progressing through education up until this point. I’m ready for that path to come to an end, just not ready to pick the path that follows.

It’s been one month since I’ve been home in the U.S. My accessibility to explore new things has decreased, but it’s given me time to reflect upon what I want to build for myself. This site, meechio, has been sitting around because I’ve still been unsure about how I want to put it to use. I’ve always known it’s a key piece to the puzzle, but not the complete picture. When I first got home, I knew there were more elements that needed to be built, then I could start to piece everything together.

I was struggling to figure out these elements, but it became clear to me when I re-read what I had previously written on the home page of this site. One year ago, July 2022, I wrote “meechio - my creative half”. It was clear that I needed to find and create the other missing half to compliment my creative half.

After a month of spending my days at coffee shops, the public library, and a co-working space filled with professionals, I found the second half that I was looking for: Lokorio. It has a similarly pointless name as meechio, but the two come together to form my digital identity.

As I’m writing this, Lokorio is at a very early developmental stage. To explain what it even is, I would describe Lokorio as a creative hub that documents the projects I create. Recalling to the start of this post, I said I have many different paths I can take for the next chapter of my life. When comparing the different paths, I realized the one thing that is a core element for each path is the ability to build and explore new things. With these two basic elements in mind, I built Lokorio to give myself a space to do such a thing, regardless of the path I end up taking.

Similarly to meechio, Lokorio is 100% my voice. The difference is that Lokorio does not focus on myself, as meechio does, but rather serves as documentation for the projects I create. I have no projects yet, aside from meechio and Lokorio itself, but I plan to curate a collection of them as I progress through my life.

I can never know if what I’m doing will work out, which makes the process cloudy to work through. As with meechio, my objective is to create things to the best of my ability, and hope that is enough to carry things forward. With meechio, it truly is a personal archive so simply having it for the future is enough to satisfy me, but Lokorio has a different purpose, thus (am I old fashioned for using thus?) requiring a different thought process.

Regardless of how Lokorio turns out, I do think this is a key step to realizing my personal destiny, which is the only true obligation for oneself according to the wise Paulo Coelho.

We’ll see how it turns out, but now Lokorio is connected to meechio, and part of my archive that I will look back on one day. I can then see with clear vision how it impacted my journey, for better or for worse.

Advice to my future self: Just keep building.