The One Where My Life Gets a Home

Today felt like a quiet turning point.

I decided I'm going to build a personal website 🏠 — not as a resume, not as something to impress anyone, but as a space that's actually about me. My life. My thoughts. My reflections. A place where I exist as I am: a 21st century gay Taiwanese-American young man trying to make sense of the world 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇼. This is where my thinking will live. Where my questions go. Where I try to understand life, people, love, ambition — all of it.

And I made one more small decision: I'm going to start using real names instead of codenames ✍️. I think I'm ready for that. Less hiding, more integration with what's actually real.

I also finally did something I'd been avoiding for way too long — I listed Steven's furniture on Facebook Marketplace 📦. Three items: a $200 orange sofa, a $1200 king-size bed, and a $5500 "high quality" sofa that Steven insists was $7000 💀. There had been this weird, sticky resistance around it, not even logical, just procrastination that kept finding new shapes. But once I actually sat down and did it, it was simple. And something loosened.

While going through all the ancient Greek figures for the HistoricalFigureMBTI project, I had this thought that it could be an incredible prestige TV show. So many personalities, so many tensions — philosophers, politicians, students, rivals all orbiting each other, debating, clashing, shaping history. It wouldn't even need exaggeration. It's already dramatic. I added it to my Creativity section on the site.

On the drive today I was listening to Boring History for Sleep 🎧 — the episode on Jung — and something about it really landed. Jung wasn't just making up abstract ideas; he was observing patterns. Dreams, symbols, recurring roles across human experience. The idea that there are universal archetypes, that people move through different roles depending on context, that there's something like a shared psychological language underneath everything — that's kind of insane. In a good way.

I've always liked Jung because of how his work connects to MBTI and cognitive functions, but hearing more about how he actually arrived at those ideas made it feel more alive. Less like a system, more like a discovery. And it made me think more seriously about dreams — I want to actually pay attention to them, remember them, write them down, see what patterns emerge 📓.

Today wasn't loud. But it moved things forward — a website beginning, old resistance loosening a little, new ideas opening up. And somewhere in all of that, I feel like I'm starting to live more as myself. ✨