About my thoughts, aspirations, reflections
What should we do when everything falls apart? I think our education system is missing one of the most important lessons in life: how to cope with disappointment. They teach us how to dream big and strive for success, but not how to change course when life doesn't go according to plan. It's easy to say, …
“God damn it, I hate this city.” My first impression of Japan’s capital was, honestly, not very positive. It was 2001 — I know, for some readers it may sound like prehistory — but I was there. Eighteen years old, a freshman in a university with a literature major, which meant I still hadn’t figured …
Is this the place I’ve always wanted to be?Is this the place I want to stay forever? On July 4th, 2009, I was in New York.More precisely—on the balcony of a 19th-floor apartment on West 48th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. I was invited to a house party to see the fireworks display for …
There was nothing but snow and sunlight… and dogs. On New Year’s Day of 2022, I was standing in the middle of the snowfield in Kamikawa, Hokkaido. I looked around and breathed. I exhaled really deep - so that everything could evaporate. 2021 has been a tough year for me. I contracted covid, broke up …
I remember my first winter in New York. I enrolled NYU School of Continuing that winter to study art management. I was really excited to learn professional studies with other native English speakers. However, at the very first class in the semester, I realized my English was not at all enough to catch up with …
"Starting over" is the concept which I don't subscribe to because I believe life is a something continuous. But there was one time I felt I needed to start over entirely from scratch. November 7th, 2008: Brooklyn, New York. I arrived at JFK Airport the day before and settled in a hostel in Bed-Stuy. I …
Ten years ago today, I was at the airport waiting for my flight to New York. I was alone. It was a beginning of my real life, in the sense that I was not following anybody else's. Surely I have taken some big decisions before... like which course to study at university, or what kind of …
When I was 17 years old, I wrote my first play. I was a drama course student in high school. Every year senior students put on a show as a final project before graduation. All members of the class, 40 of us, had to be cast in the same show. Also, each one of us …
A Thousand Years 