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Rant.

It has been more than a week since I last wrote here and today is the last day of the much awaited three day weekend. Keeping at it is harder than I thought. I need my time to be amorphous, pliant in my hands, not chopped up with a rigid schedule. And on top of that I need space to write, which I don't have. I haven't had a proper space to write in for over a year now. The last decent place was my dorm room, but I didn't have much peace of mind there, much like now. Today I will complain.  My day job intimidates me. It feels so much like carsickness. Knowing your destination or having a gorgeous landscape out the window does very little to change the fact that you feel like puking the whole way until that is the only thing you can devote brain-space to. Is this indulgence? Most probably is. But with my hyperhidrosis and the all-consuming anxiety caused by hyperhidrosis, I am unable to live to the fullest. I feel marooned here in Japan. I hate this country and its pe

Why I started this blog

Life has taken an unexpected turn. It is still a good life, both objectively and subjectively. I have shed much of my naivety. There's definitely more clarity, more awareness, less (or controlled) romanticism, but I have lost an important part of myself in the process. An aspect of myself that helped shape my formative years and interests that I hope to nurture and invest in for the rest of my life. I have become too self-conscious. I have choked my mind up with too many thoughts. Thoughts that should have paved way for creativity have become roadblocks. I have let in too many voices into my head. I have turned insecure. I need to let go. I need to be able to write because I love to write. Over the years, I started to associate my love for this craft with grander, larger-than-life aspirations. Now when I actually stop and search for the tiny kernel I started out with, I find it weighed down by everything I have stacked atop it. Its light has grown dim. I make no mistakes be