One Step
With both your worries and hopes, stay who you are…
This is, hands down, the best day of 2025 for me. It’s neither flashy nor extravagant. It’s super ordinary.
Let me tell you why.
This morning, Papa and I set up my new home office. It was a productive day because it brought happiness. Having my own home office has been my dream since college. Today is the day we made it come true.
The room itself is just like any home office. There are a small shelf, a writing desk, and a working desk. But I was so amped up at the idea of having my little mental space again that I started to pick the best photos to decorate my writing desk, then called it The Writing Section. I also put my diary there, promising myself that I will put my mental vomit daily.
To celebrate it, I watched Arashi’s The Digitalian Concert in said room at night. It is one of their best works and my favorite album. It’s been a long time since I last did it, too. Maybe…a month ago?
Ugh, and I call myself Arashi’s big fan.
The fangirling session is super lit. So lit that my parents knocked on my home office for being too loud HAHAHA. I respected it, tho. Although I still couldn’t hold myself that I spin my office chair while singing.
I was so, so happy.
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I stopped watching after Arashi performed One Step. This song is something I always sing while reading the English translation at the same time. Its whole meaning is alluring and touching, hence I always do the aforementioned when the song comes up.
This is my favorite part of the song:
Another dawn has come when the bright light shines into someone’s heart
Rather than thinking of the days long past, they’ll want to find something new and walk forward
With both your worries and hopes, stay as you are
Entrust one of your wishes to the passing wind
And this part is also the reason why I stopped watching, then proceeded to write this entry.
For a long, long time, One Step is a song I listened to at my worst. I would cry until I lost my breath as the melody hit me. My crisis when writing my thesis. The time when I felt pathetic. The time when I felt the most lonely. I totally couldn’t remember any good memories when listening to it.
However, today is different. I listened to One Step on my best day in 2025. The day I got my home office. The day I read messages from my superiors that celebrated my leadership.
Also, the day I realized that everything I cried for, fought for, and dreamed of…they are all paid off in a full circle.
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So, even on an ordinary day like this, happiness comes like a sudden rain in the summer.
What a full circle moment.
