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“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
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…
초코파이
There was a box of choco piemeant for youleft behind the hidden door of the pantryback there in the place where home meant alonefor me, at least, that was what I had wantedunless otherwise meant I could walk you backto where you had wanted to beI think it was October too that was supposedlya last…
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…
stress, eating, stress-eating
It is a cultural thing to eat with one’s hands: coming from one of the many archipelagos in Asia, it is a cultural thing to touch food directly here. It is more than a cultural thing, if one thinks about it how else did everyone else’s ancestors eat before the invention of chopsticks? I usually…
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…
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