kristina @kchoi - Tumblr Blog

I don’t believe in “Do what you love / Love what you do.” I believe in finding fulfillment in doing your job well. Do what you’re good at.

You can do what you love, but you don’t need to have that be your only way to make living. There’s also no reason that you can’t love what you’re good at.

Thoughts I’m having as I think about my own skills and passions.

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on playing god

I thought about the kind of art that affects me deeply, whether it’s a single line from a book, a particularly amazing meal, a homemade font, a musical score, a film. What do they hold in common? What makes them “successful” to me? I’ve found that the best way to put it is that “good” art sends me into a current of awe-inspired wonder that starts and ends at the same places: first at humans, then God. Every attempt to approach originality is really an act of imitation. We were made in his image, after all…with him being the ultimate Creator, what else can we do but frantically, desperately find ways to leave bylines wherever we can? To tinker with old things, and with them, mimic newness? To look upon something we’ve made, and see that it is good? We’ve been placed within a realm (an expansive one, but a realm all the same) with all the necessary tools in our hands, and we have only to make sense of them, to rearrange them according to the designs already painted onto our souls. The fact that we can do this, and do so beautifully and boundlessly, inspires a particular sort of gratefulness. That we’re limited (even the best chef can’t actually create a tomato, nor the artist the leaf he paints), and yet still limitless is a paradox that confounds and exhilarates me. I know it’s not the type of evidence that can be backed by charts and graphs and paleontological findings. But for me, the existence of beauty and our unnecessary but very real awareness of it is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of God—a God who knows, understands and loves humans deeply.

kchoi

"To be able to look upon something we’ve made, and see that it is good?"

Wow.

Back to Basics

Last year, I made a blog (coffeespoonstories.blogspot.com) as a way to challenge myself to regularly make creative content about a few of my interests (fashion, food, travel, etc). I thought that the pressure of growing an audience and continuously providing interesting photos or thoughts would motivate me, but no. I realized that I just don't have the time (or interest) in maintaining a personal blog.

This year, I co-launched bridgefromabroad.com, a community blog with posts contributed by past study abroad students. It's my baby. In between working full-time and studying for the GRE, I work on the site design, edit contributions, manage the social media accounts, and daydream about future contests, scholarships, and partnerships for the site. It takes the same amount of, if not more, time as my personal blog, but I enjoy it so much and wish I could dedicate even more time to it.

I don't want to go back to my "fashion" blog, but I still have this desire to create. To gather my random thoughts, put them in a somewhat coherent post, and leave it on the Internet. Call me a millennial. But it's important to me to record my experiences, as it helps me become more self-aware. The other day, I was reading the journal I kept while I was abroad, and I saw how much I've grown since then, and how much I still have to work on. Plus, journaling was the reason I have such lasting and vivid memories from those 5 months in Bristol. With that, I decided to get back on Tumblr and use it as my digital journal. I'm in my mid-twenties now, and I want to remember and record as much as possible

So... hello, Tumblr! And see you again soon.

#thoughts #blog

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10 Oscar Nominees Posing with Their Younger Selves {x}

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Featured on a 1000Notes.com blog

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Me and Emma #Oscars

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i'm dead

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I hope you all know that Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity director) was also the brilliant mind behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and if it wasn't for him the wizards and witches in the cinematic masterpiece that is Harry Potter wouldn't have had their own unique wand designs.