because i have fomo i got myself a hobonichi techo late last year, and this is how i decided to use it. my partner told me she felt my 2024 blog post was refreshing, because i told everyone i lost momentum for my art, she thinks it is not something that people will consciously write publicly about. am not sure if this is true since we’re both trapped with each other as an echo chamber, but i’ll continue to champion for writing about one’s failures and shortcomings in public. not because it is an attempt to rebel against the mainstream propensity to display only success and positivity, but simply because failures, flaws, shortcomings, negativity – they are simply part of life and part of the norm. am just advocating the fullest possible spectrum of life be shared, within one’s personal comfort. i do have my skeletons, but everything else i would like to share, because i think reality and life deserves to be whole.