Reporting 200 followers, and I've started a magazine.
Reporting 200 followers
I have surpassed 200 followers.
Thank you so much
for always reading my work.
I was quite surprised when I passed 100, but
getting from there to 200 felt surprisingly fast.
I have zero acquaintances, I'm not good at social media, and it's a note where even I sometimes can't tell if I'm posting photos of bento boxes or writing essays.
In the morning, I pack side dishes into a bento box,
and at night, I pack unnecessary self-consciousness into my writing.
More than 200 people are following the records of a person who is bad at organizing like that. I am grateful.
However, while you can manage with a bento by just closing the lid,
you can't do that with writing.
Between reaching 100 and 200 followers,
there is one thing I felt strongly. That is,
aren't magazines actually quite important?Until now, there have been people who put my articles into magazines or introduced them, and I have felt truly grateful every time.
And recently, as the number of people I follow and articles I read has increased, my reading speed has not been able to keep up at all.
I am not a very fast reader.
Rather than speed reading, I am the type who stands in front of a shelf looking at the spines for a long time.
Even at a bookstore, I go to buy a specific book, but
before I know it, I'm standing in front of a completely unrelated shelf
with a look on my face like, 'Is this title talking to me right now?'
Something similar is happening on note.I feel like this person's way of thinking is very close to mine.
Wouldn't that person also like this article?
This person's article is about life hacks, but
somehow you can even see the person's own touch in it.
While reading like that,
I was organizing them into shelves in my head on my own.
However, the shelves in my head are quite unreliable.
They collapse immediately.
Articles I carefully placed yesterday
end up in some cardboard box in my brain today.
And they aren't even labeled. It's like a room right after moving in.
If things go on like this, I will miss good articles.
I won't be able to find the articles I want to read again.
That would be a huge waste.
Thinking that, I decided to make a magazine myself.
As for why I named it 'Shelf',
I hope you will take a look at this article.
By the way,
what I am using for the thumbnail is
my real bookshelf at home.(It's going to reveal what I like...)
The 3 new shelves I created
Shelf of Outlines
I am collecting articles where you can see the person's way of thinking, habits, and body temperature. It is a shelf for articles where the person's character emerges before the explanation.
Self-introductions, daily thoughts, discomfort in life,
records of sudden emotions. Within such things,
there are moments when you can see the outline of that person.
I want to place articles here where I can think, 'This person sees the world from this angle.'
Shelf of Touches
Cooking, tools, ingenuity, habits.
I am collecting articles that are not only useful for life but also show the person's unique methods and aesthetic sense.
Rather than just convenient information, these are things where
'that person's hand' remains just a little bit.
Even with the same dish or the same tool,
the person's individuality can appear in how they handle it.
I quite like those kinds of articles.
Articles where, even though you are reading a recipe, you start to feel like you are in that person's kitchen halfway through. Articles that are about life hacks but somehow contain a small philosophy.
This is a shelf for such things.
Shelf of Margins
I am collecting articles that retain the feeling of 'liking' and
the person's unique perspective.
Rather than a review,
it is the margin left around the things they liked.
There are articles that seem to be talking about the work itself, but slightly ooze the person's life or memories.
Manga, movies, music, towns, shops, old memories.
Among the articles written about such things,
I want to cherish the strange texture
that exists between 'I understand' and 'I don't understand'.
And, as a small token of appreciation for those who added my articles to their magazines or introduced them, I will introduce them here.
People who added them to their magazines
Nonno-san
Yu-san
Kenko no Genten-san
Amane Sho-san
Ta-ze-san
Yada Kazuya-san
People who wrote wonderful article introductions.
Arasa Bonjin no Saikiroku-san
The article you introduced
Udojo-san
The article you introduced
About the future
Moving forward, I hope to follow the example of those who have included my articles in their magazines or introduced them, and start introducing articles myself from this shelf little by little.
To those who read my articles.
To those who give me likes and comments.
To those who have included my work in their magazines.
To everyone whose work I have taken the liberty of placing on my shelf.
Thank you all so much, always.
The number 200 followers has become
a quite significant milestone for me.
I hope to continue making bento,
writing essays,
and while introducing other people's writing little by little,
I hope to continue increasing my own shelves here on note.
I look forward to your continued support.
Finally, for those who liked this piece or those reading my articles for the first time, I have written a self-introduction essay. I worked hard to write it so that it conveys who I am, so I would be happy if you could read it.
Self-introduction essay
I also have a magazine called
"Bento Records" that compiles all my bento and essays so far.
Magazine | Bento Records