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I. For the majority of 2020 and 2021, like the rest of the world, I was stuck inside. In the beginning, ‘inside’ was my parent’s house, where I would toil away on my thesis for 1 hour and spend the rest of the day playing Animal Crossing. After graduating, ‘inside’ changed…

Reflections

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Reflections

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Journal Kita

·Nov 26

its not living (if its not with you)

If two strangers even walk past each other on the street and their clothes accidentally brush, because it means there must have been something between them in their past lives. One word has stuck with me for the past week. 인연 — Inyeon. If you’ve watched Past Lives in the…

Mental Health

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Mental Health

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·Nov 19

making it up

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rilke I’ve spent a lot of time this year catching up on TV shows, movies, video games, and books. Each is its own medium, but all exist for a singular purpose: telling a story…

Musings

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Musings

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Nov 5

A Long Journey: What I Know About Grief

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” — Khalil Gibran On Friday morning, I woke up to a call from my father telling me that my grandfather had passed away. The last two days have been a whirlwind — I helped clean…

Grief

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Grief

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Journal Kita

·Updated Oct 22

An Update on Journal Kita

Hello everyone, Haikal here. Over the past 2 years, Journal Kita has grown much larger than I expected, with 44 writers, over 500 followers, and many great pieces from Indonesian writers. …

Journal Kita

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Journal Kita

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·Oct 22

texture

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — East of Eden I went to an art exhibition over the weekend with my friend. While admiring the paintings, we both talked about the modern experience of looking at paintings that we’ve seen countless photos of…

Personal Development

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Personal Development

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Oct 15

the time will pass anyway

“Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.” — Morty I recently got the chance to visit Ephesus, a sprawling city covering 500 acres that once housed over 100,000 people. It’s a pretty cool experience to be able to walk through a city and think…

Musings

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Musings

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·Aug 8

don’t let it die

“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.” When I was a kid, I wanted to be a taxi driver. All the other kids wanted to be a doctor or policeman. Not me — taxi driver was…

Self Improvement

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Self Improvement

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Jul 16

conversations with friends

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Whenever I meet someone for the first time, I have two measures of determining the ‘success’ of that first encounter. The first is whether I’m able to make them laugh. …

Friendship

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Friendship

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Jun 29

leaving the party

“Nothing good happens after 2 AM.” — Ted Mosby, HIMYM S1:E18 On one particular night in 2016, the world’s eyes were set on two racecars. In the sweltering heat of Abu Dhabi, under the lights of the Yas Marina circuit, Nico Rosberg beat his teammate and fierce rival Lewis Hamilton…

Personal Growth

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Personal Growth

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