This morning, I attended the English Zoom meeting as usual. Today's topic was mainly about how to spend time to kill boredom and learn something. TBH I rarely watch YouTube videos even though I can't tell why (maybe, I simply have no interest in YouTube culture). Instead, recently I started enjoying Podcasts on Spotify to relax my mind and learn various things (I like podcasts such as "越読る" and BBC's podcast for English learners).
Although I have to "imagine" making YouTube videos basically, making videos must be very difficult because the creators need to find fresh and interesting stuff to express in their videos to attract many subscribers/watchers. Also, those audiences may leave critical/denial comments to these videos therefore they need to keep their mentality strong enough to endure. My mind is (as you might already know) soft and weak like tofu so I have to be careful not to be invaded by various malice from outside.
I worked early today. During lunchtime, I wrote some notes about "Shiso-Ga", the memoir I want to write. What should I write... About this, I should try to "reveal" or "question" various facts I tend to treat as "common ones". For example, why did I start living in my group home? Why could I quit drinking alcohol? Why did I start learning English? Also, I want to write many things such as Waseda, so-called "Shibuya-Kei" music, Haruki Murakami, and Paul Auster. I should keep on having keen eyes that can point out those mysteries as children.
After today's work, I went to the library to borrow some books by Atsuko Suga who is a popular (and legendary) one in Japan. In my room, with the music by Luna and Galaxie 500, I read Paul Auster's essays (a Japanese edition which is titled "The Art of Hunger") which contain his very (even absolutely) crisp writings about Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and other poets. I remembered the college life I had surely enjoyed through Auster's writings, especially at that period I had enjoyed his "Moon Palace" and also his screenplay "Smoke", which are still evergreen masterpieces to me. Through reading them, I could have learned an ideal lifestyle/philosophy certainly. Dear readers, wait for a while (I wrote about 500 characters of "Shiso-Ga" today).
