I want to remember this moment forever! I just arrived to Kaohsiung today, where my older aunts, other uncle and cousins live. We are in the coast so we just had the most amazing seafood from dinner that we picked right from the live pools. Talk about farm to table frfr.
Tonight I had to break free of family obligations. Any family, sorry if you’re seeing this haha, there are many questions I’m asking of myself right now and I need time to explore things without any reservation! Sometimes the best things come when you throw plans in the trash… and that’s how I like to travel. So after we got back from dinner I said see ya later alligators and went on a walk…and I think they thought I was just peeking around the neighborhood but I ended up on these couple trains and I’m out here.
I wanted to see this night market… which turns out is in this whole ass other place. But I took this entire journey here and the place was fucking closed lol. Then it started raining. So I just decided well I guess Ill just go home now like Forrest goddam gump and thought fuck it I’m just gonna go down this little alley. Ok so now imagine everything is dark and closed… I walk up to this door that just says “eternal” it was warm and still. I pushed it and much to my surprise this place was open… and this is what it looked like. Wow… I mean the music, the vibes, just tucked away all the at back here.
I’m writing this at the bar right now. Honestly I feel bad because the bartender had this whole secret place with this beautiful girl at the bar to themselves and they definitely seem to like each other…they was probably having a perfect night Haha. But now it’s the three of us lol. But hey look… the bro just let me hotbox the back room of the bar all by myself cause he prob just wanted to talk to his girl 😂 he told me usually no one can smoke in there but tn he was just like fk it…
So I ended up in the back of this bar, smokin it out and listening to music, It’s great times.
Plans
In my life I’m trying to find the balance of planning things out and having no plans at all. only when you fully abandon all control over your outcomes can you find the most serendipitous moments in life. The “upward” trajectory in all society is to gain more and more “control” over your life as you “grow up.” As a grown up you’re expected to know everything, to have everything mapped out and to never just be ok with not knowing. This is hardly ever how anyone actually feels but we just play along and put on the mask.
Finding this bar was important to me because I could have only found it if I wasn’t scrambling for yelp to take me somewhere else. I just figured, I’ll walk into here and something will be there. It sounds so small but so significant at the same time. Is life the exact same way? Are we missing something by making all of these “plans?” By trying endlessly to control our destiny, are we missing it?
When I left the bar I couldn’t help notice… just 3 monkeys sitting on top of each other ✨
