April 3 is the day after my wife and l got married. Sometimes it feels like a million years ago,and it's nice to remember those moon-eyed,blissed-out, just-married days, too.
Find your friends in your increasingly unrecognizable hometown, and take The Bus to come back next year. CONTROLS-Arrow Keys to Move (tap to run, hold to walk)
Being born and raised in Hawai'i, I try to make time to visit home every spring. With each passing year, I have seen Hawai'i change rapidly to keep up with demands for tourism and high-end housing. As more and more people move there in hopes of finding paradise, it has only pushed out the people and cultures that actually made it special. Now, when l go back, I try to remember what's gone and appreciate what's left.
I got the call my friend Jacob had killed himself. He was 26.
I met him in 3rd grade. He was the funniest person I've ever known. He invented the concept of "comedic integrity", which is something like the opposite of regular integrity. It means to commit to a joke at all costs. Even if no one else thinks it's funny. Especially if no one else thinks it's funny. I was at a bar in Boston,800 miles from home, with the sound of a party in the background.
So many people that didn't know Jacob, would never get to know him. It was my loss and theirs. I pitied everyone on Earth that would never even know Jacob had lived.
He hated himself as much as anyone else loved him.
I wanted to go back into that bar and tell everyone to stop having fun. There was no way they could enjoy themselves now that Jacob was dead. Instead, I took a taxi back to where l was crashing and cried on the couch.
"Catch you guys on the flippy floppy. Have fun." -Jacob's last recorded words
Sometimes it feels like the world is pushing you around and you're just along for the ride. Forward... backward...moving on...returning to the same place again...Even when it feels like you lack all control, love can still find you. If that happens, will you be ready for it?
On April 9th, 2013, my girlfriend and I visited Nara, Japan at the end of the cherry tree flowering season. We mostly came for the deer, but the lasting image in my mind is one of the petals filling the sky as the trees get swept by the wind...
Try not to overthink this, just know that your day, and whatever that means, will come and go, and yes, there’s more than one day to be yours. Weird right? I don’t make the rules, nobody does, I have a suspicion that in the end there are no rules at all, but that sounds like a rule, so remember, don’t overthink.
April 10th was a day of trauma. The repercussions are still something I'm dealing with today.
This is the game I wish I had in the moments I felt its echoes. I've created it as a reminder to listen to myself. That it's important to periodically tend to that metaphorical plant that grows inside of me. I hope it helps you too.
Let the flower grow alongside you as you go about your day. It takes about six hours to fully grow. Every once in a while it will get scared and want to be cared for by you. Give it a tap to remind it you're there.
A sincere thank you to Tim Phillips and Caspian Whistler for tending to me when I couldn't tend to myself.
Nora was born at 25 weeks of pregnancy. If she had been an Internet download, she would have been at 62.5% when she got delivered. Nora barely weighed 780g(1.72 lbs) slightly less than a package of rice. This game tries to capture the rare joy of the few first weeks having tiny Nora sleeping on your chest, making all sorts of noises.
Preparation: Grab from home a package of rice (or similar) weighing approximately 1Kg.Put headphones on. Recline on your chair. Hug the rice package on your chest. Grab the mouse and click when ready. You cannot lose.
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