,,, i know i don’t usually do something like this but,, let’s have a heart to heart thread.......
the reason i started translating things on twitter was because i wanted to distract myself from all my academic work... school in hong kong in general is stressful, and with all the-

politics going around, and stuff, it’s been really hard for me to truly sit down and focus on something. even art, something i love to do, wasn’t able to distract me... there was so much going on and i didn’t know what i wanted to do. so i picked up translating.

translating was fun, i got to help others enjoy content that they might not have been able to understand and cleared up some understandings for people. i finally felt like i had a purpose for once.
School and family life was always a blur for me. Study... study... work hard...

and after that came waves and waves of tests. i felt like there wasn’t much meaning to all of this. it was very redundant and just ended up as white noise in the background for me,,, the academic system here is very strict here and being put in a elite school didn’t help either,,

family life for me wasn’t eventful either, i have a younger brother that gets to do whatever he wishes because i’m the “prodigy child” that my parents held high. i have a caring father but i rarely get to see him seeing that he works his ass off for us. i have a caring but-

temperamental mother that i know wants the best for me but doesn’t really know the best way to show it. because i was so immersed in my academic work, (it’s my senior year after all...) i don’t interact with them much, but everytime i do, i’m reminded of how they want me to be-

or well, what they wanted me to grow up as. it wasn’t the best feeling, but i didn’t want to let them down either....
around march was when quarantine started, and everything i was working on just got thrown out the window. my student council plans, my art portfolio...

i was so lost and confused as to what i should be doing and what my career should be and how to qualify enough get into med school that i didn’t realise how much stress i was putting on myself,
this time i just had a fight with close friends of mine and i just, kind of broke down

and so i delved into translating stuff even more, trying to distract myself (it was more of a desperate attempt haha,,) and people actually liked, what i translated. people wanted me to translate and i was able to help people and bring them joy...
i felt really nice. for once.

then came the april fools tweet, i didn’t know how but people liked the prank and they enjoyed it, and people supported me, a stranger on the internet. a clumsy, obnoxious stranger that bubbles on and on about idv news and their daily life. it was really nice, and really-

heart warming, knowing that people cared about me. and knowing that i have made friends in my translating journey....
so thank you. thank you aca, kei, anima, chii, and so many more of my other twitter mutuals. thank you for talking with me and liking the content i make.

thank you everyone who reads my translations, thank you for supporting my translations... and thank you for reading to the end of this thread. if anyone is, well, reading this.
thank you