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In the movie titled "The Wind Rises", the main character was the most important engineer in the design and manufacture of fighter jets for Japan in WW2. The success of the Japanese air force depended largely on the main character's designs of fighter jets, at which point Japan had not yet successfully deployed one (all failed at design and field tests).
His wife was sick with tuberculosis, and they were both deeply in love.
Instead of staying in the sanatorium as recommended by the doctors, the wife chose to leave the sanatorium and went to be with her husband in Tokyo instead, while he was working on bringing his aircraft design to life - working under enormous time pressure for the war.
The husband stayed with the boss's family. And when the boss saw that the husband brought the wife home, he told the husband, "If you care about her, you'll send her back immediately," to which the husband replied, "I can't do that, I'll have to give up my work."
The husband asked the wife to stay with him, even though her health was in bad condition.
The wife stayed with the husband, living her last days with the man she loved, even though he worked long hours and came home in the dark of night, and she was bedridden. It was a pure depiction of bittersweet love.
There was one scene where, after coming home from work late at night, the husband moved the small wooden table next to his wife so he could continue his calculations next to her. They held hands as he worked, one hand holding his wife, the other his pencil.
He kissed her, and said, "I'll keep holding your hand. You should sleep."
"You won't let go?"
"No, I won't."
As he continued on working, he wanted to go for a smoke break, but the wife said, "No. Smoke it here."
"It's not good for you," the husband replied.
"I don't care."
...
When she felt it was time, she left to the sanatorium, where on the same day, news of her death reached the husband.
The husband made that decision for his wife, to spend their last days together, even though on paper it would have been better to send her to the sanatorium.
"If you care about her, you'll send her back immediately."
"If you know what's good for her, you would do so and so."
These words echo throughout my mind constantly.
Did the husband make that decision out of emotion, or conviction? From the movie, it sure looked like conviction, and the husband was not shown to be an emotional person.
But did he make the right decision? Did I make the right decision? What constitues the correct decision? Does it even exist?
Love is beyond good and evil. - Friedrich Nietszche
Posted: 22/2/2026.
Hey, ian. How are you? You doing good?
I know it's been a rough few months, but you'll be okay.
You'll slowly find yourself again. You'll heal.
You will get to feel like yourself again, to be yourself again.
I know even as you're reading this, you're slowly discovering more and more of yourself. You'll be fine, remember that.
Don't blame yourself for what happened in the past. You tried your best. You gave it your all; nobody is denying that.
You loved with everything you had. You were at your most vulnerable, and that takes courage.
You have to believe that it will get better, because I know it will, and because you know it will too.
God has never left you, either. He has always been there with you, as hard as that is to believe.
You'll start to enjoy things again. You'll find things you're genuinely interested in again.
Just take this time to grow, alright? Be a better version of yourself. Chase the highest ideals, there's nothing else besides that worth pursuing.
As much as it's okay to not be okay, it's also okay to be okay with your current situation. It's okay to stop chasing sometimes. It's okay, to be okay.
I love you.
Last updated: 14/2/2026.
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How did I get here?
Have you ever, in the middle of doing something/being somewhere, suddenly had this thought pop into your head? "How did I get here?" And I don't mean the physical place you're in, directly; but the person you've become. The series of choices and decisions you've either stumbled into or had thrown at you, ...