The Faltering Ground

Ever since I was a first grader I had a deep interest in Astronomy. During grade 3 I had started developing an interest in Chemistry. I enjoyed reading about these topics, because they are straight forward topics and not too ambiguous. And yes, science can become ambiguous, such as some of the stuff in quantum mechanics. So, in this post, I've decided to compile a list of things in Physics that interest me most. Just so you know, Einstein and Hawking really were the OG's. 1. Black Holes Credit: EHT Collaboration When I learned about black holes in grade 2, you could say I entered some sort of existential crisis. I was so scared about the fact that our milky way had a black hole in the middle of it that I had my mother assure me that we wouldn't be swallowed by it. These days, as I read more and more about the topic, I just get more and more perplexed by how complex our universe is, and what this extreme body does to it. For a basic overview, a black hole is a body that form...

I just had a dream about my grandmother. Well, I actually had quite a few dreams about her before waking up, but the last one was really impactful. I was walking in church looking for a place to sit and found an open space, but people sitting in that space told me it's reserved for their family, so I had to get up and find someplace else to sit. I walked around and saw my grandmother sitting next to an open space. She saw me and immediately invited me to sit next to her. For the first time I experienced the feeling of deep wistfulness and longing, as the feeling I got when I saw her is comforting. I walked up to the open space and she said: "You've forgotten about me, haven't you?", looking visibly upset. The space she kept open was just big enough for me to sit down comfortably, as if she's been waiting for me all this time. I embraced her tightly and warmly, wondering if the break she took from our household has made her a bit stronger. During her last days ...

Anime has been a huge part of my life since 2013, when I watched Naruto and Sword Art Online. They were definitely some of the more popular ones at the time, with Naruto being part of the "Big 3". The other 2 constituents of the big 3 are One Piece and Bleach. Dragon Ball is one of the older anime, having been aired quite a few years before either of these previously mentioned anime— so you could say it's the elder or ancestor to these anime. These days, the anime that I indulge myself in are mostly isekai. Isekai anime usually have these main characters that were normal people in their past life who get transported to a new world with "swords and magic". Reverse isekai like Re:Creators also exist though, which is the opposite. Sword Art Online was my first isekai, but I wasn't aware of the genre at the time. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime *or TenSura for short* was the anime that made me fall in love with the genre. This was later solidified by oth...