Hello! Welcome to a new segment of my blog called the Thoughtful Week. In my effort to stay consistent in writing and in expressing myself (as part of my ongoing self-therapy in getting over my perfectionism and people-pleasing), these blog entries will be a collection of snippets of thoughts that I had during that week, with either zero to minimal explanation. Basically, these were ideas that were too short to develop into an essay or too serious to post in Mastodon. Here's this week's entry:
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Do I believe that print is dying? I don't. I think print is here to stay. It doesn't command the same demand it had over the last century, but it won't be going anywhere. I think that there will still be people who will choose something that's printed, and are willing to pay the price for their preference, aka what the society thinks is their eccentricity. So as a creator, if you're doing it for the money, you're going to lose. But if you're going to do it for the love of it, you're going to find people who wants it to purely disconnect.
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The nature of academia, knowledge, isn't elite. It only because elite because it's what the society branded it to be. Because of bad actors, capitalists, and megalomaniacs, those who strive in the lack of knowledge, or changing the narrative, or the control of information. They have a stake in this game. It is in their best interest that people are dumb and think of academy as not only an enemy, but something they can't attain. Never let them win.
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I guess my disdain for Pinoy songs was because the poor people keeps on playing them loudly. Those music that were jejemon ambisyoso kind. Maybe it's just my classist view hating the poor and their squatters ways but maybe it's a desire to be different from them. Maybe it's just my desire for quiet.
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I realizedd that the process of writing is boring. It's rarely about going to cafes to write there, it's writing where inspiration hits. It's writing when you need to write. It's writing where you can find focus. I don't know about you but I rarely see prolific writers going on the internet showing everyone how they write in cafes. I saw the most productive creators being recluse like hermits and so locked in they lose track of time.
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Today I realized I never gave up going on an adventure. My adventures just turned inwards. I need to start exploring the world again.
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Sakamoto Days reminds me of being able to go back to your peak despite leaving the crazy life for a normal stable life. Sakamoto left his the legendary assassin life to be with his life, only to come back (with some rules) and still kick everyone else's butt. I left my writer life to work a corporate job and support my siblings, and now I need to go back to being my prolificness.
Thoughtful Week 5
5/19/2025