/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Oh, what a year 2023 has been.
Back in 2022, I was silly in love with a cute girl I was friends with for years. After courting her for a month, she discarded me in silence for a superior replacement. That was a massive blow to my ego.
Then, my fishing friend died and that one left me in a state of haze. I just ... couldn't function anymore.
A saving grace came when I started traveling around as an escape and I stayed at a place that had a swimming pool. I sunk myself to the bottom of the pool then came out to the surface, only to not hurt for a few precious seconds.
When 2023 came, I knew 2023 was going to be a year where I have to redeem myself.
With all the exercising I've been doing, I managed to go from 130kg to 80kg, I travel whenever I can by myself and I do put in bits of work here and there on personal projects.
The weird part is that I ... can't say it hurts any less, but I do feel like my back has gotten stronger to be able to hold the pain.
My perspective also shifted a little bit, in the sense that I think I'm reaching a point where I'm too old to start a family and my mother has expressed concern to me that I'm becoming unusually isolated, preferring to just stay inside and read books. It has also left me feeling very disconnected in the sense that I feel way too embarrassed to tell others I'm hurting.
For 2024 I'd like to be able to travel a little more around the country and maybe go to a neighboring country and maybe one of my personal projects reaches feature completeness.

I hope you all are blessed with a kind 2024.

Ever since I've seen this CD cover I can't get it out of my mind. Does anyone have the full version of this?