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A Day for Myself…? (2026/05/30)
Lately, a lot has happened in both my professional and personal life, meaning I’ve hardly had time just for myself. Every weekend has been crammed with things I must do, and while a lot of it has been fun I’ve also felt burnt out by all of the chaos. I hadn’t even touched a personal project in nearly a month! So when I saw that I finally had a day all to myself I knew I had to take the opportunity to make it my day.
Beginning My Day
I woke up around 4:15 to the footsteps of the mailman, but luckily it’s already light outside by that time. I spent a little time getting ready and left the house around 5:00 for my morning walk. Whenever I don’t have any urgent plans in the morning, I like to go to a park about 45 minutes away from where I live. It’s a pretty large park with a lot of greenery, and while not shown in the picture I took there’s some outdoor exercise equipment too, which I appreciate since I’m trying to get my upper body strength up.
I picked up some eggs on the way home so I could put in a little more effort than usual into my breakfast today. It’s been a while since I made omelettes, but this is probably one of the best looking ones I’ve ever made. Kiwi fruits have been cheap lately too. One thing I’m looking forward to is more and more fruits being in season.
Toei Pass Trip
Usually on my days off I take the opportunity to ride a bunch of trains and buses, and today was no exception. I picked up a Toei pass at a nearby train station, which lets me ride anything operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation for a day for the low cost of 700 yen. With it, I took the bus to Oji station.
Near Oji station is a building called Hoku Topia, which has an observation deck on the 17th floor. You get a really nice view of the area there, including the station and the bullet train tracks. I had been there once before and decided to go again just to watch the trains go by. There’s a cafe next to the observation deck too, but it was booked for an event so I went to a different cafe nearby instead. There, I got some work done on an upcoming animation project while having some coffee and cake.
I left the cafe around 13:30 and headed back to the station to ride the Toden Arakawa Line, the only tram left in Tokyo. Today it wasn’t too crowded, which meant I had a pretty nice view of the window as I made my way back to Waseda. I contemplated hopping back on the tram to go see the tram depot, but decided against it as I was getting a little tired. From Waseda, I rode a few buses back to my house.
Back Home
When I got home, I took a nap and worked a little on my website (and writing this very post! hello future readers!). It’s always the afternoons where I start feeling my anxieties getting worse. Am I wasting away my free day? Could I have not been more productive? Oh, not to mention how work isn’t going well. I’m already almost halfway through the weekend, what am I doing with my life!? I try to take things one by one, but lately it’s been getting harder to do.
To distract myself from these thoughts, I slugged through editing together the storyboards I drew earlier in the day. Before I knew it, it was already 19:30. I went to go get some pasta at the store, took a shower, and sat around watching youtube while feeling the slight pang of “there are better things I could be doing right now”. I struggle with letting myself rest; I always have to be on the grind worrying about something.
As I reflect on my day, I realize I may be more burnt out than I want to admit. I think even a few months back I could have gone an entire day drawing and drawing, but now I don’t enjoy it as much. It’s more out of obligation and fear of stopping now. These days there is a constant fight with “I NEED to keep going” and “my god I just want to not think”. But at least I got something done today, so I won’t go to bed feeling as bad.
I wanted this blog post to be a more positive, happy outlook on my life, but for better or for worse it’s ended up a lot more realistic? gloomy? than I had hoped. Who knows what I will think of this in the future… but for now? Thanks for reading this, and goodnight!