{"id":4346,"date":"2015-06-13T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:53:31","slug":"a-place-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/thoughts\/a-place-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"a place somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a list of ideas in a doc for those cases when I want to write something but I have no idea what to. I also have a list of potential titles. It&#8217;s all very pretentious. I was looking at the prompt-list a few minutes ago, though, and noticed that I like to write about (or, well, at least <em>think<\/em> about) the technicalities and details of any type of relationship. Or maybe just details in general; I have a bunch of prompts that are two words (an adjective and a noun) that describe, usually, setting. There a few that are also snippets of sentences and\/or dialogue; c\/p from conversations or quoted.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve realized a few things, also, recently, regarding how people interact with each other. I&#8230; sound kind of&#8230; stupid saying this, to be entirely truthful. It&#8217;s a very 14-year-old thing to suddenly start analyzing people and make up idiotic conclusions on &#8220;society as it is now&#8221;, or talk about how I&#8217;m clearly so much more superior because I don&#8217;t have feelings like the <em>average<\/em> teenager or whatever. Although the things I&#8217;ve learned aren&#8217;t like&#8230; that, necessarily. It&#8217;s from personal experiences, and the fact that I reflect on past events and compare things too often.<\/p>\n<p>When I think back on all the previous best friends I&#8217;ve had, the memories that first resurface are, obviously, happy. They&#8217;re mostly related to playdates and finishing schoolwork first, winning math bingo, and sunny afternoons. It&#8217;s a very comforting feeling, and sometimes I wish I could go back to that.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose something must&#8217;ve happened since then (aside from changing schools and going into high school&#8230;), because when I think of having friends&#8230; I tend to think more of all the commitment and effort I have to place into being friendly and nice. Of course, if I have to pretend to be someone I&#8217;m not in order to keep a friend, they&#8217;re probably not a good friend in the first place. I&#8217;m kind of lonely in that way.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, a lot of people are lonely. I think I could try to alleviate some of someone else&#8217;s loneliness&#8230; but I&#8217;m almost 100% sure that the type of company they want is not the kind they expect from me. Because, usually, I am a replacement. A half-assed temporary substitute until one gets over it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, whatever. I&#8217;m still little. There&#8217;s a lot more for me to figure out, so I&#8217;ll end that thought there. It was getting depressing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right. I reread some old posts from some years ago today. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve changed much (that&#8217;s contradictory), or in a particularly blatant way, at least. The way I write things (especially posts like these) have changed a little. I still overuse commas, though. In 2013 I was more open, relatively, talking about my classmates and the things that happen at school or between my classmates and whatnot; then in 2014 it was the end of grade 8 wherein I was quite relieved and quite lazy, choosing to express my thoughts in sentences that were paradoxical, almost (except they didn&#8217;t make sense).<\/p>\n<p>That previous paragraph probably supported the claim that I reflect too often. I&#8217;m not sure why I do that. It&#8217;s probably something to do with my obsession with collecting memories&#8230; along with my diaries. Which I have been writing in for a while now. I don&#8217;t even know what I write about. Complaints, I guess. And things that I was happy about (&#8230; which are increasingly more embarrassing as the days go by&#8230;), or unhappy about. I have too many useless thoughts, and too may ideas that I never act on.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the prompt-list. When I write things, I actually don&#8217;t use it. Which defeats the purpose of making such a list, unless the purpose was to remember all those genius ideas that will fester and die miserably. When I write, it&#8217;s usually a rewrite of something from a few years back, or a picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/koikyokusei.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> paired with the current song on repeat.<\/p>\n<p>I write boring things. I can barely draw also. I feel like I&#8217;ve failed all the things I could&#8217;ve been good at, but I have no drive for it. A lot of things seem boring. I don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Alright. School ends in&#8230; about five days. That&#8217;s a scary thought. It seems like I&#8217;ve barely done anything since September. But I have. Done a lot, I mean. I&#8217;ve tried to come to terms with a bunch of things. Tried being the key word, of course. Progress has been made (hopefully).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll end this here, then,on a somewhat optimistic note. I&#8217;ll try to write more as well, about more relevant things, and things that would be explored in a more in-depth way. And preferably written at a time that is not midnight (as it is now).<\/p>\n<p>[bg music: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSYILvtW5eU\" target=\"_blank\">checkmate<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a list of ideas in a doc for those cases when I want to write something but I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/thoughts\/a-place-somewhere\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a place somewhere<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","excerpt","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}