Yayoi Kusama, mental illness and embracing weirdness

Is some sort of extreme isolation necessary to…

What I learned about love and loving a person

When I was younger, I thought love was all about feelings. If you feel like you couldn’t breathe when the person is around, or that you’re willing to risk your life just to make the person happy…that must be love right?

On learning to see and love through art

it made me love humanity and myself at a depth I never did.

Gifted with an utilitarian education and culture, I grew up with a non-appreciation of art — bordering on being disparaging. When I…

A love letter

to her, whom I love.

Dear you, 

Falling out of love with love

When romance is no longer romantic

“If you love a flower…

I dare you to love me

“I dare you to love me” — a line in one of my favorite movies, “Imagine me and you”, where they talked about what the lily represents. I was a lifelong hopeless romantic when I first watched it, I fell in love with my girlfriend then at first sight. I believed in walking under the stars…

Playing to live

reflections on turning 35

One must imagine Sisyphus as unhappy too

I was intrigued by “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus when I first knew about it. It tells of Sisyphus being punished for eternity, repeatedly rolling up a boulder up a mountain, only for it to roll down again. Hence the famous line, “One must imagine…