English Diary 2026
☆ 0508 I did my listening training again this morning and was also able to strengthen my vocabulary. I’ll study as much as possible today as well. Instead of imagining the exam results and feeling discouraged, I choose to believe that I belong to the group of people who will pass the test in the near future. I can understand those who say we should buy physical books now before they become difficult to obtain. However, I am perfectly fine with buying books only when I truly need them. After all, "I’ll read it someday" often means never for the next five years. And if you had five million yen to invest over those five years, the potential returns could be tremendous. I already own enough books to spend a lifetime thinking deeply. I have Hegel’s lectures on the philosophy of history, the complete works of Nietzsche, a large volume of Schopenhauer, collections of world classics, as well as works by Yanagita Kunio and Orikuchi Shinobu. At this point, I probably own only a few tho...