Thanks so much!!! Your blog posts are so inspiring and helpful and I’m incredibly grateful you share them with us!!!

This is so true. I was playing a visual novel today without and help from software or dictionaries and was doing pretty well enjoying the story and characters. There were of course few words here and there I didn’t know but it was enough to understand what was going on. It then hit me “wait when could i play these type of games without stopping to look every other word up in the dictionary!?”.

This made me tear up a little bit(I’m 19). Thanks for the read and motivation.

Making friends isn’t hard these days. There are tons of people in the world who no doubt share many of our interests. What does it matter if so-and-so won’t do such-and-such with you? Find someone else, or find something else to do.

“(if you tell them it was easy, they say it was genes; if you say it was perseverance and hard work, they say it was perseverance genes)!”

Man, I’m no stranger to this one. I’m also known for going to ‘extremes’ – which is layman’s terms means ‘more than I do’ – and some people are convinced I’m either a genius or have a special chip inside me that makes me want things more than they do. “I don’t have [imaginary gift] like you do” they say. “I will never have the thingymejiggy that you have” they say. Not with that attitude, that’s for sure.

The reason I’m more ‘extreme’ than most people isn’t because I have a special chip or care more, it’s the opposite. I acknowledge my suckiness and I don’t care. I do it because I can.

I’m DAMN happy I can speak English. When I was like 10 or 11 I was constantly like “it would be sooo cool if I could speak English already.” Of course, I guess this only applies to non-native speakers :p