I used to have many more classmates, more teachers, and larger classrooms. Thalun International School is tiny compared to my former school, Yangon Academy. I am very thankful to my former school for teaching me a life lesson; bigger doesn’t always mean, better. Hahaha. I’m laughing at my old introverted self, lol. HAHAHAHA.

Everyone changes. So do I.

I am glad that I have made a very good decision, moving from YA to Thalun. I believe the younger me was sinking under the society at YA. Here at Thalun, it’s a new place with a new taste, with new people, and altogether the environment creates a new feeling for me. -A new feeling of happiness and relief that I have never felt before.  I am no longer the John from back then. Anymore.

Speaking in the simplest way, I have lived a somewhat dark past that I had a lot of trouble overcoming. I do not wish to reveal or bring this past up again. The past shall remain in the past. A lesson I took from this: Pain means weakness.

If anime weren’t to exist in the world, I know that my younger self would not have done anything to distract himself from the “horror.” I… I have found so much beauty in the dark as I have found a lot of horrors in the light. This is also a reason that I sleep (very) late at night. Sometimes, I just won’t fall asleep until about 5 or 6 AM. When that happens, I just simply enjoy the rising sun of the early morning.

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The spear of destiny hit me, and will hit you. One shall never know when, or how many times, one will get hit.