The Year of Insignificance; Welcome Back!
" Buddha teaches us the art of cheerful despair." I came across the line above a few days ago. I don't remember where, but it must have been from one of the Stoic books or articles I've read these past months. I've been blogging forever until one day, I decided to quit, simply because everything about my life had gotten so personal, and I didn't think I was ready to meet the possibility of having people talk to me like; " Hey, I read your blog the other day; I'm sorry for what happened. " It happened several times in the past, and I finally said to myself - No, you can't do this anymore. People need to talk to me personally to know what happened with my life with me. I realized that I tend to get too overwhelmed by the idea of writing out my feelings, so quitting writing publicly sounded like a good idea back then. Otherwise, I would have gone mad thinking about how detached I could become from myself. But it was then, not fa...