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A life within a day’s length
I had a funny thought the other day. How would one live their life if a whole life were to fit into only 24 hours? If each day we woke up and it marked the beginning of a brand new life, in which our attachments to the past were but severed, and any events happening…
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So… how do you live?
I just finished a book titled How Do You Live?, written by Genzaburo Yoshino almost a century ago. It’s a heart-warming and humane story published in the midst of one of the ugliest, most brutal eras of Japan. The coming-of-age story of fifteen-year-old Copper and his friends and uncle was dedicated to a generation of…
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Having six lives
I’ve for a long time entertained this idea that I could possibly squeeze about six or seven careers into my life, based on this (unscientific) assumption that it takes on average 10,000 hours to master a specific field. If I manage to live to eighty something years old and stay in good health, I have…
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Casual blogging
Blogging has never been a particularly taxing task for me, but once in a while I either forget entirely about the existence of my blog or feel an insurmountable dread towards the act of putting my thoughts down to a screen and share them publicly. This is why for a while blogging has remained a…
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Making and keeping memories
In the age of digital media, I am among the majority who opt for a phone camera to capture everyday moments for future reminiscence. The strange thing about this is that after a while, all these moments just sort of blend into a blur and occasionally, staring at a photo cannot even conjure the particular…
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Social media, OUT
For the past couple of weeks I have been venturing back into a few social media platforms (just because!) and to my surprise I didn’t find the experience all that bad. As per usual, however, I grew tired of it quite quickly and now I’m left with this urge to remove myself from social media…
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Haircuts and makeovers
Transformations. Makeovers. Glow ups. Instant, yet radical appearance revamps at the flick of a magic wand. Hollywood and the likes brought me up in this world of delusions filled with magical, effortless character transformations that would only take seconds of footages, a lot of momentum buildup, and occasionally some pixie dust. In kids’ movies and…
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Searching for a middle point
How can I find the balance between this calling for some save-the-world vigor and grandeur, and the yearning for a more muted, subdued life filled with peace and contentment? In these past few years, I have been harboring no shortage of idealistic visions for a world where all the current ugliness of reality ceases to…
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To my love, from a long distance
I miss that day when I wanted to go to the old quarter in town, and you purposefully waited to catch me at the door, pretending that you were going there too. That trip ended up being our first date ever. On the same day we visited a clock tower and I only let you…