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What I Learned about Loving Japan & Self-Worth

Today is November 21st, 2021. This date marks the end of the 35th year that I’ve been alive on this planet. In many senses, it’s been both one of the best and also most tumultuous years of my life. Around this time in 2020, I had just left the safety of being a full time employee at a listed PR firm in Japan to start a digital marketing agency with a close friend. As I wrote in this piece on the white snakes of change though, things just didn’t end up going as we planned. What’s more, this isn’t the only area where I came up short since my last birthday either.

All things considered, the months since the end of spring have been one hell of a ride. After having a fateful chance encounter with an old friend in late March, I ultimately came to the realization that I was far more suited to being a freelance digital marketer and content creator than a Head of Digital Marketing. In the wake of this happenstance rendezvous and the subsequent breakthrough, literally every facet of my life cumbled to ash. Though I in many senses I ended up being reborn anew like a phoenix, watching it all happen in real time was harrowing.

By many accounts though, the last 365 days have actually been a colossal failure. Looking back to what I had set out to achieve over the past year, I don’t think there is a single…