Trigger (of starting this blog):
Combination of following chain of events/circumstances that pushed me to start something new:
- Obscure, yet growing sense of urgency for letting the life pass me by. (aka. quarter life crisis)
- My diminishing memory capacity, which nowadays prevents me from recollecting what I ate in the last evening.
- Changing life circumstances (e.g. marriage, having a baby, growing old/sick, passing etc.) of people close to me, which reminds me of the transience of life.
- Growing preoccupation with rock climbing and chronicling its progress (or non-progress, more often than not), which had intensified my pre-existing penchant for recording trivial details of everything.
- Deteriorated motivation for work (after the failed attempt to negotiate the salary increase + conversion to non-contract employment status), which had inclined me to dedicate more of my mental resource and time to workplace distractions/daydreaming.
Intent (as of Dec. 2017):
- Compilation of encyclopedia of my first-hand experiences and thoughts (which are more or less influenced by secondhand input from others) to capture whatever ephemeral/frivolous muses that would otherwise go un-externalized (therefore forgotten).
- Archive of thoughts and records related to rock climbing.
- Nonchalantly attempt to establish an alternative revenue source to supplement my meager wage as a disenfranchised contract worker (who failed to step onto the path for becoming a conventional Salaryman with a dedicated loyalty and guaranteed life time employment)
- Reactive/Proactive treatment for my supposedly premature, but increasingly manifest amnesia & recurring insomnia (which often prompts mind-wandering before falling asleep at night)
- Avenue for ventilating highly skewed views for no other reason than satisfying my ego
- Improve (or mitigate the decline of) my English writing skills.
きっかけ:
マンネリ化しつつある日常と着実に進行する「老い/時間の経過」を感じざるを得ない自分自身や周囲の状況に対する焦燥感への処方箋として、新しい事に挑戦しようかと。
目的（2017年12月時点での構想）:
- しょうもない思考の足跡を、そう遠くない将来愛でるための土台造り（という名の暇つぶし）
- 記憶の外注（ワード検索できるのは中々に将来重宝すると思う）
- 岩登り（ロッククライミング）関連の備忘録&登攀録の充実
- あわよくば副収入創出 （しがない雇われ人: 派遣社員から脱却を図るための消極的試行錯誤）
- 健忘症と不眠症への対処/予備療法（気になる事があると中々寝付けない）
- 拗らせてしまった承認欲求の解消
- 英文Writing Skillの研鑽（というと聞こえが良いので最後に持ってくる）
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