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Welcome, Dear Blog!

I have always found it really hard to express my thought, especially when I am talking. As neurons are firing in my brain, thoughts and ideas pop swiftly from the unconscious to the conscious mind. That’s why talking - for some individuals like me - is increasingly harder. I make mistakes more frequently. I spit out nonsense without notice. I can not find the right words and the list goes on. However, writing is different. It is less hectic, much slower, much deliberate. Therefore, it can be less fun, but my intention here is to express my thoughts and feelings. If you have seen the anime series name Violet Evergarden then you know how much important to write about one’s feelings because it is not easy to get a sense of this world.

When babies are born, they try to organize these colorful pixels on the retina, called an image, or the seemingly ordered air vibrations, called a sound. As they grow up, they need to be fine-tuned by their parents and by the community. Fundamentally, the reason why we are so different from monkeys - despite the fact that our genetics are VERY similar - is because we are granted a lot of time to grow up. For instance, most animals learn to walk within hours while infants takes 14 months. Humans are very fortunate, since most of us do not need to worry about dying from a predator. Having said that, newborn animals are quite grown regarding their brain. On the human side, children start almost with a blank state, tabula rasa. It results in an immense diversity of personhood, from introvert to extrovert, from sociopaths to angels, from Hitler to Gandhi.

“The very First Blog” post ends now. I do not know where this blogging journey will take me. I only know that sharing experience through language is shaped our existence. Furthermore, I also know that words, sounds, images are inefficient to transfer one’s emotions and thoughts perfectly. At the end of the day, they are just symbols… Powerful Symbols.