I always fail. If there’s one thing that is consistent in my life and has been ever since I was a child, this would be it. I’m a failure. Everything I have tried to do in my life has, in one way or other, ended in failure. Even the most successful things I’ve done are, in a very real way, a failure. I’ve been spending the past three years working on a serial fiction story, and even now it gets maybe two viewers a day, if I’m lucky – and… Read More »I’m a Failure
Ever since I began this blog, there have been a few ongoing themes. The one that really permeated the entire blog was the following question: Why am I bothering? Over the last few years, it’s perhaps the most important question, and the one I had the most difficulty answering. I think I might have the answer. And it ties together nearly all of the threads that have been weaving this blog from the very beginning. So let me start. The first thread was: why I started to learn Japanese. Something… Read More »Japanese: a Failed Experiment (But Not Entirely)