I feel seen

People still read, watch, and listen to my stories

The last story I ever wrote on Medium was in January 2021 and it was about the wrong lessons I’ve learned from 2020. I haven’t written any medium-length story since then.

I would post a tweet every now and then. But I haven’t published written form stories at length until today.

I had a podcast that was more like a personal journal in audio format and I have also stopped uploading more after the episode which I called the End of Another Chapter.

I still have two other ongoing podcasts — a Korean ASMR and a Kdrama/Language Learning podcast.

I have a YouTube channel where I occasionally upload videos. It’s very quiet there.

I’m doing a lot of things and putting myself out there. I might be being spread too thin and I don’t mind. In the past few weeks, something actually surprised me.

I am still being read, watched, and listened to. Not me in the present. But the stories I have published in audio, video, and written format. It goes as far as stories from five or six years ago.

The internet might be a really scary place if there are things you want to hide or run away from. On the other hand, it can be a good place to capture and archive stories and memories that instead would have been ephemeral.

While things being ephemeral have its own beauty (and ephemerality can be too romanticized at times), there are stories that would benefit from the chance to last a little longer. And there are people who would benefit from the resounding of these stories.

In one way or another, I believe, the people who have read, watched, and listen to my stories might have gained something from them. And I’m just grateful.

I feel seen.

Noticed.

It feels like the stories that seemed so mundane to me when I first wrote or recorded them made a tiny difference in somebody’s already beautiful life.

And so I’d keep writing.

I will continue speaking my truth.

And I will continue to live a life, online and offline.