Low effort

I'm not sure why, but I found myself weirdly drawn to some old blog posts tonight. I would be tempted to say it's because of procrastination, but I usually have other means of doing that.

Maybe it's because I am feeling nostalgic for a time in my life that truly feels like forever ago, or maybe it's because midlife crisis is starting to set in. The funny thing is that this was not a very good time in my life by many measures; even though I feel more fulfilled right now, I can't help but yearn for the intimate bonds I had back then. But this post is not really about that (I am sure I will have more opportunities to reflect on this in the future)—as the title says, this is a low-effort post.

Not sure how common this is, but my mind does this weird thing where it rapidly fires off thoughts and memories that were hiding in a distant corner of my brain when I come across an artifact that had some significance for me in the past, leading me to some random places. Anyway, these thoughts led me to the song The Songs That We Sing by Charlotte Gainsbourg (and I made this post just to share this):

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• Why is the post in English? It’s simply easier for me to order my thoughts coherently in this language these days.
• Long time readers may be wondering what happened to my old (pre-2009) posts. Maybe I will write about that at some point.
• Speaking of readers, will anyone actually see this post? Although this blog has always been primarily for my own sake, it’s an interesting—and slightly wistful—thought.