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Category: Musings

  • ‘Blue Hour’ (2021)

    ‘Blue Hour’ (2021)

    The gallery, for now. However all of café gyü‘s artworks are going to arrange themselves someday, I have no idea yet. For now, I have stopped thinking about such so I could make more of them instead. Make more in whatever daylight remains by the time I awake. This is the season of sunsets and…

  • “Work hard”: sound advice and logic behind

    “Work hard” not because doing so will make for certain that all your wishes will come true. “Focus on your goals” not because following this will ensure that those said goals will all be achieved. “Do your best” not because a specific sort of successful result will be granted for it. Rather: work hard, be…

  • To read or not to read

    To read or not to read

    There was a short fiction book I started reading last year and after a day of pain-staking—that is, with much, much pain—comprehending, I decided to put it down. It has been more than a year since and I have yet to feel the need to pick it up again, wherever it is now. I had…

  • On the relevance of ethnic homogeneity in the 21st century

    Can there instead be a way of defining a ‘nation’ beyond the boundaries of history and cultural similarities? Or is there even value still in cultivating such an idea—a nation of people—when the collective human race is being taken toward an inevitable connectedness? While there are mental gymnasts struggling to ‘establish’ and ‘develop’ what they…

  • The value of quantity

    Often the perception is that it is better to focus on quality. When it comes to the classic quality vs quantity debate, regardless of for what the answer is, the objective is always to produce higher quality. But perhaps it is not as clear cut as it seems. I watched this video about a polyglot’s…

  • The thing about languages

    Perhaps instead of thinking about each language as separate systems on their own, it might be better to think of each as simply a part of the entirety of knowledge, as every one of them containing a piece of Truth. Just like how there are philosophical concepts I have yet to understand or literary tropes…

  • Office garden

    A person awakened to the essential mutability of life does not dread physical waning or loneliness; rather, he or she accepts these facts with quiet resignation and even finds in them a source of enjoyment. Kyozo Murata The end of a week is not an unusual time to find oneself going through the bottomless pit…

  • A night’s reflections on routines, lethargy, and what it means to live freely

    오후 9:39 I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and…

  • Thoughts while buying eggs for the kitchen

    Thoughts while buying eggs for the kitchen

    What is it in those steps I took in the grayish grass of this empty road?

  • Flaws of nature

    Flaws sound like problems, which ought to be solved, but maybe the reason why nothing seems to ever be perfect is because breathing itself can be suffocating enough, what more a precisely measured way of exhaling and inhaling and moving about a boundless world?