sometimes i get triggered seeing the youths today with their crisp-white tights, delicate pink mesh wrap shirts, perfectly gelled back ballet buns and all the "pristine posh-ness" that is modern balletcore.
but i think it's bc that's how i desperately WISHED i looked in ballet class, unlike how i actually dressed (sweaty, usually second-hand leotards, fleshy-pink tights with hairspray-mended runs, ill fitting hand-me-down leggings that were a few sizes too big.)
i literally had a hetalia graphic sweatshirt, black butler sweatpants and american horror story graphic tanks as part of my regular warm ups- and im not gonna lie i get a little jealous seeing all these fashion girlies posting in their cute knitwear, knowing my ballet experience was so much less refined.
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i was nearly going to make a whole video essay about this but i couldn't think of how to articulate this properly but does anyone else find it weird when youtubers peddle sponsorships that are like. frozen food. or even mealkits. or that stupid fucking water bottle with scent flavors. just the most useless shit. you can buy groceries and cook, you can just drink water. why are they doing this. they have patreons that give them thousands of dollars a month and they're still taking shitty sponsors like this to pay their $4000 LA apartment rent and buy $1000 microphones for their boring podcast. youtubers are the most unserious people on the planet
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Lionel Lindsay (1874 – 1961) - Hans Heysen's First Studio, Ambleside (Hahndorf), South Australia, 1920, etching; A cottage idyll, Ambleside, 1922, etching; Ambleside barn, 1925, drypoint and plate tone
Lionel Lindsay had lasting friendship with artist Hans Heysen who lived in Hahndorf (Ambleside), South Australia. The town was settled by German Lutheran migrants.
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A finance research analyst from Singapore goes to Japan to be a tea farmer and she did not regret it.
“I left Singapore three years ago for the land of the rising sun because I went through a devastating breakup.”
Yes, there’s something spiritual about Japan that heals your soul. I went to Japan for the first time in 2019 after going through a heartbreak as well. I’ve been to other countries but none of them has that calming effect as Japan.
It’s like even in the midst of chaos, there is peace.
When I took the peak hour train, despite the crowd and how packed the train cabin is, there was silence. Except for the occasional whispering but other than that the only sound I hear is the therapeutic sound of the train moving.
Everyday during sunset, I could feel as if everything stood still. There was this eerie calmness in the atmosphere that I could not explain as if everything starts to slow down for the day as the evening starts and there’s peace.
“The Japanese have a lot of respect and reverence for your vocation. You can tell your Japanese friends anything you’ve been doing lately, and they’ll find it cool. For the Japanese, you’re held in the same esteem—no matter your job.”
Yes, they respect your job no matter what you do, as long as you are proud of what you are doing and putting in efforts in doing it. They only look down on you if you do no take your job seriously, even if it’s a glamorous job.
“That is something I admire here compared to what sometimes happens in Singapore. When Singaporeans get to know that someone is a farmer, most times, the next question would be, “Oh, why would you do that? There’s no money in it, or it’s a very dirty job”.
Yes, in most Asian countries where the cost of living is high, people are often judge based on their job which reflects their salary, so they usually value people with high salaries or jobs that appears to be glamorous.
For example, if you are a delivery rider, they may think that your pay is low as compared to those white collar jobs and that your job is not as stable.
But in Japan, they think that being a delivery rider means you are contributing to society by sending food to those who are hungry or busy.
So their way of thinking is different. They like to think that every job contributes to society somehow, no matter how trifle or dirty that job may seem to us.
“Looking back, I will tell my younger self that this journey will be very, very hard. You have to make many sacrifices, and there will be a lot of crying—which is quite therapeutic.
I’ve learned that you have to believe in your choices and stay close to those around you who also believe in you.”
“There is no passion without suffering.”, a quote by Taira no Kiyomori comes to mind meaning that in order to achieve your dreams, you may have to suffer.
Every path in life is full of challenges and obstacles, there is no easy way out. Only thing is, we need to figure out which path is worth enduring.
For Rhyan, the girl in this article, is her path in becoming a tea farmer. She’s like the real life Taeko from Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday.
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