How was Sophomore English? What did I learn/discover during this course?

This course, a persona writing was really good chance for me to think about and reflect what I am. Through this course, I was always observing myself in any kinds of aspects such as what I wanna do now, what I have done or what I wanna do in the foreseeable future. This is a fundamental process to know what I am and I got to notice internal myself. To dialogue with me is one crucial way to develop myself and this course facilitated this process. I wanna make the most of this experience in my life and I really enjoyed this course!

What do I want my obituary to say?

Yu Inoue, resident of Yokohama, Japan, passed away on February 27, at the age of 76, at his house.

Inoue was born on August 26, 1991 in Yokohama and spent all his life there. He frequently went abroad for some businesses but he knew that Japan was the best place to live because of a lot of favorite things , friends and family. But unfortunately, the age when he lived was tumultuous period such as economic crisis or environmental problems like global warming. Because of  these kinds of situations, one question coming from his mind was that humans could not decide when they was born but they could decide when they died. In order to set up moderate death, he was always finding when he died and finally he found time to pass away. It was at the age of 76 that his best to die was. Due to the reason, he almost achieved his goals of his life. At the beginning, he was planning to achieve these goals earlier but finally he could do it at the age of 76. He died in peace without regrets at his house.

What is my view about religion?

Recently, I am thinking what the god is. There are many chances to think about the religions especially, Christianity as an ICU student. Always I wanna know what the god is when studying about the religions. After all, what is the palpable distinction between humans and the god? It seems that they are stimulating and have an intimate bearing on each other. I think that the god and humans are two sides of the same coin and the line between these two are a fine one extremely thin. Also, one idea coming from Nietzsche observes this question by the same aspect. He proposed whether humans were a failure of the god or the god was a failure of humans. His claim maintained that the god and humans were so close existence, and what is more, they had no class. Always his idea gives me a little clue to my question.

What does "love" mean to me?

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

                                            Freedrich Nietzsche

I can answer the question, "what does love mean?" by quoting a maxim of Nietzsche.

I seems that what I can say from his word is love is beyond the control of good and evil and it just happens for somebody you love. Love is purposeless and innocent. 

I strongly agree with his thought but I always wonder whether my love is filled with selfish aim or not. The importance is to think about somebody you love not you. Love occurs only when you wanna be with somebody you love.

Too simple but too deep- Silesius

"The rose is without why;it blooms because it blooms.

It cares not for itself;asks not if it is seen."

                                                      Angelus Silesius

This poem is by Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic mystic and poet.

Needless to say, it refers to what a rose is and arouses a mysterious atmosphere.

I came across this poem in my high school days and was so surprised at its simple but powerful expression. 

Its manner is too simple but cleverly see through a fundamental question. Clearly Silesius had "an imaginative awareness of experience." In the next publishing, I will try a poem and wanna describe simple but fundamental issue around us.

What is "happiness" to me?

It is difficult to answer this question because there are many kinds of happiness for our life.

But as far as I know,  happiness is the ability to understand a pain. I think originally there is no clear definition of happiness. So, how can we feel it? It seems that we need some sorts of interpretation or basis of it. I claim that it is not until we feel a pain that we can understand what happiness is.

At all events, if you feel happiness, that is to know what a pain is, you can be kind to others and strict with yourself.

My favorite recipe- Cheesecake

Recently, I am interested in food wiring as I talked about it in the first publishing. Also I like not only eating but also cooking, especially sweets like cakes. Today I would like to introduce a recipe of cheesecake. I always make delicious cheesecake by using it.

Ingredients
Cream cheese: 250g          Fresh cream: 100cc

Butter: 30g                         Milk: 50cc

Sugar: 70g                          Lemon Juice: Three tablespoons

Egg: 2                                 Cake flour: 30g

How to make

1. Mix up cream cheese and butter until becoming smooth. And then add sugar.

2. Mix eggs and add them to cheese.

3. Combine fresh cream with milk and put them into cheese. Lemon juice too.

4. Sift cake flour and put it into cheese.

5. Put cheese into a mold and bake it for 30-35 minutes at 180℃.

6. Let set for 24 hours in the refrigerator. 

I hope you can make so delicious cheesecake by using this recipe and I am looking forward to eating cheesecake you make.