Topical Commentary
• Via Li — Why you need to chase your dreams
~ (why you need to live for yourself and not for others ← empowerment, responsibility, and accountability for one’s own actions/ the privilege of time and choice, only you can fix yourself, no one else can save you).
• Sisyphus 55 — the fear of truly living, For Those Who Feel Lost In Life
~ [근데; 조심해요] The Myth of Self Improvement } What Are You Doing With Your Life? — “heart-mind 心 for flexible judgement […] 明 the unpredictability/surprises of life”
~ [The effort of change] Why You Fear Your Own Potential
~ [愛/사랑] do you want to be loved or do you want to be yourself?, the desire to be loved (the fear of being loved)
[Creative Expression]
• Schaffrillas Productions — Why Whisper of the Heart is my Favorite Animated Movie
[The Self — 사람/自爱 和 self-acceptance]
• Cinema Therapy — Therapist Reacts to MEET THE ROBINSONS (with Haminations) —
“Fitting in is the opposite of belonging”
“Self Love: Because that’s how we get through the anxiety of ‘please love me, please accept me’, [it’s] when we’re good with ourselves and we truly love ourselves, then we know what we have to offer, and then it’s just a waiting game of just waiting to find the people who see what [we] already see”.
[Effort — An optimist’s perspective]
• [lines in motion] — Blue Period - The Dichotomy between Talent and Hard Work
[Lynn Helding] Innate Talent: Myth or Reality?: “In the end, the worth of talent as a construct is revealed as virtually useless when, in the absence of the training necessary to reveal it and the effort necessary to sustain it, talent, if it exists at all, vanishes”.
Songs (歌 / 노래)
[Fujii Kaze 藤井 風] Michi Teyu Ku 満ちてゆく (Overflowing) —
“It’s tragic to love someone just to be loved …
Opening up our hearts to shine, it brights up the darkness and shows us the way (letting go, feeling lighter, and becoming filled)”.
[Adele] To Be Loved (I Drink Wine) — “So we can love each other for free”.
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Watch (看 / 보다)
• [Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho)] Bâan - The Boundary of Adulthood — Anime Short Film
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[WARNING: VIEWER’S DISCRETION IS ADVISED (mature audience only)]
• [Darren Aronofsky] The Whale — trailer ← “Because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while” (to be seen).
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Readings (读的 / 읽다)
• [Oreco Tachibana 橘オレコ] Firefly Wedding たちばな オレコ — Chap. 33 — “You don’t have to have just one dream”.
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Effort
• EJAE (Kim Eunjae 김은재) — [Good Morning America] Interview
• Kimono Mom (Moe) — [KUDEN] Presentation
Shining Humans (他们自己的光)
• Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) — [The National Football League (NFL)] Super Bowl 2023 Halftime Show
• Yuzuru Hanyu 羽生 結弦 — [Olympics] PyeongChang 2018 Men’s Figure Skating Free Programme, Sochi 2014 Men’s Figure Skating Short Program
• Maia Shibutani — [Olympics] PyeongChang 2018 Ice Dance
• Alex Shibutani — [Olympics] PyeongChang 2018 Ice Dance
~ [Individualism / Value]
• Takashi Murakami 村上 隆 — [Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago] Interview
~ [Legacies — 生命]
• Final Fantasy VII (FFVII) — [Maximillian Dood] Why FFVII Is So Important To So Many People
• PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) — [Bad History] Turn On The Camera (reaction)
• Ariana Grande (Ariana Grande-Butera) — [Ariana Grande] Positions Album (Official Live Performances)
~ [Work Appreciations — 他们的努力]
• [Shingo Tamagawa] — PUPARIA ([Archipel] Process)
• [Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho)] — Bâan - The Boundary of Adulthood (Announcement, [Trash Taste] Podcast discussion)