Category: Relationship
2022: A Year in Review
2022 is sunsetting. I say the same thing every year, but I really can’t believe this year is also coming to its end so soon. During this year, I’ve been through a lot, including both joys and sorrows. My 2022 overall was a big chunk of adventure despite the fact that I spent most of my time at home thanks to WFH. …
Kindness in the Age of Virtual World
“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves We’re at the very end of October. I know that this year has been extraordinary in many ways, but we made it to this point. We have only two more months until the end of 2020. How will you spend the renaming of this year? Before moving on to today’s topic, let’s think about our state of mind this year. Since the coronavirus pandemic drove our lives online, we spent more hours online than ever before. As I’m …
2019: A Year in Review
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower So, here we are now, at the very end of this year. And this is my first time to post the “A Year in Review” article. Since this year is the final year of the 2010s, I just thought maybe I should make it somewhat special and memorable. Every year when it’s getting close the end of the year, some people embrace it as an opportunity for the reflection, while others curse themselves and regret those bad decisions they made. But the silver lining is that you’d never know how things …
Letters From Norway
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Norway – even though I’ve never been to the country, I feel a strange familiarity with the sound of the name. And that’s because of a Norwegian girl whom I interacted over the Internet for a couple of years. Although the intercontinental friendship only lasted for a short period of time, her influence over the past decade of my life was immense. Here, let me share the story of us. “Do you think we should ever meet?” said Marianne. It was her name. She was in Oslo and was …
Old Memories Never Fade
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss “Only thing that matters the fact is that the relationship came to its end. It’s time to move on. I’m moving on. And I know you can do the same.” That’s what my ex told me when we broke up. She was leaving Japan. What makes her so special to me is that she was my first girlfriend. All the way from the US, she was working in Japan as an English teacher. We’ve been traveling in and around the greater Tokyo region. Our first kiss was in Yokohama …