English Diary 2025-2026
March 3 I want to live like nagashi somen, drifting lightly along the current without resistance. Go with the flow. Still waters run deep. With a subtle, quiet empathy in my heart. All things flow and change. A prayer. All things must pass. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." "Custom is the great guide of human life." "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." After all, radio is great because it allows me to absorb a large number of English proper nouns all at once. Because I took a short break from listening for the past two days and let my ears rest, everything sounds clear to me now. I sometimes think that marathon running is not inherently harmful simply because of the long distance, nor is it inevitably injury prone. It depends on somethings important. No matter how much I talk, the core remains within me, carefully cultivated and quietly enshrined. S...