[2020-01-07] Why I hate New Years [fTRHRzacbco]

I don't like it when a new year begins

because everyone starts setting goals for

themselves and New Year's resolutions,

and that's great and everything, you know,

it's, it's wonderful for society when

people start trying to improve themselves,

but it makes me feel bad because then

people start asking me what are my goals

for 2020, what do I hope to achieve, and I

just don't know what to say because I have

absolutely no goals. There's absolutely

nothing that's interesting to me right

now. There's nothing I want to learn.

There's nothing I want to be able to do.

There's no new skills I wish to gain. I

didn't really have this problem when I was

younger. When I was in my early 20s, I had

lots of goals. I wanted to learn Japanese.

I wanted to learn Korean. I wanted to move

to Japan and live in Japan. But now that

I've achieved those goals, I don't really

know what to do next. I guess the next

logical step would be to make new goals.

That's what you do when you finish a goal.

You set a new one. You don't just finish a

goal and then stop trying to do anything.

But the problem is I just don't know what

to set as my new goal. To have a goal,

you have to have something you want to do

or want to achieve, but there's just

nothing I want to do. I don't really know

what to do with my life anymore. And I

know what people are going to say. I know

what people are thinking. They're going to

start suggesting me a bunch of random new

goals that they think I should try.

Daniel, why don't you learn to drive? Why

don't you go to the gym and improve your

fitness? Why don't you learn a new

language? Why don't you get level 1 of the

JLPT, Japanese Proficiency Test? And I

just don't want to do any of those things

because I don't have to. There's no reason

for me to learn how to drive. I don't go

anywhere. There's no reason for me to

improve my Japanese or get level 1 of the

proficiency test because I don't talk to

anyone in Japanese. Apart from my wife,

and we barely even speak to each other

anyway. And my level of Japanese is

already good enough to do what I want to

do in Japan, which isn't a lot. I don't

really care that much if I look skinny. I

feel, I feel fine fitness-wise. I don't

really want to learn a new language

either. Learning languages is not fun.

It's a lot of hard work, and I don't

really need to learn any new languages.

You see, I can just give you all of these

excuses why I don't want to do anything,

and then I just end up not having any

goals because any goals people suggest to

me, I just say, oh, I don't need to.

What's the point? It's too much hard work

for too little reward. I feel like it's

kind of pointless just setting yourself

random goals unless you're actually

motivated to do it. You're not going to

last very long. You're just going to try

doing the new goal for maybe a week or two

and then give up because you don't really

feel motivated to do it. I felt really

motivated to learn Japanese in the

beginning because I was insanely attracted

to Japanese girls, and in order to improve

my chances of eventually getting a

Japanese woman to get into a relationship

with me, I, I knew I had to learn

Japanese. So I was really motivated to do

that. I was really motivated to learn

Korean because before I had a Korean

girlfriend who didn't really speak

English, and she had basic Japanese

knowledge, so I thought Why don't I just

learn Korean? And even if we break up,

maybe I can use Korean in the future if I

get another Korean girlfriend. I was

really motivated to come and live in Japan

because I really didn't want to live in

England. I didn't want to live with my

parents for the rest of my life. But right

now, honestly, nothing really motivates

me. And I see all these other people

learning new stuff and trying to gain new

skills, and I feel kind of envious because

I wish that there was something I really

wanted to learn. I know it feels good when

you've learned something new and it took

you time and effort to gain that skill,

and then you can finally say, I, I can do

that. I can do that thing that I didn't

used to be able to do. I can't remember

the last time I learned a new skill

because every time I try to learn a new

skill It just ended in failure. For

example, I tried to learn how to code and

I made a few apps. Didn't make any money

though. It just felt like a big waste of

time for nothing. And then I tried

learning Japanese to get level 1 of the

JLPT and I failed that as well. I did try

driving lessons when I was about 18 and I

took the test, the exam, and I failed that

as well. I don't like to fail. I don't

like spending a lot of time and effort

learning something only to fail an exam.

It just makes me feel like I've wasted all

those hours learning something and I still

failed. So what was the point? I guess I

came to this conclusion that instead

of failing, it's best to just not try in

the first place. If I just don't try

anything, then I won't have that feeling

of failure because I didn't even try in

the first place. I guess that Simpsons

quote when Homer says, Well, you tried

something new and you failed. The lesson

is never try. I think that quote really

stuck with me. I guess you really have

problems in life when you're taking life

advice from Homer Simpson. I don't think a

lot of people are going to find this very

relatable because most people in the

world, they don't have the luxury of being

able to just sit around all day not doing

anything, feeling really bored and playing

video games. Most people have to go out

and work. They have to learn skills so

they can earn more money so they can

provide for kids or their partners or

their pets or themselves. I guess I'm

lucky in a way because I don't really have

to do anything. I make

enough money to be able to pay for myself

and to be able to buy food and pay rent.

I don't have any kids or responsibilities

or bills or expensive debts that I have to

pay off. I don't need to learn basic

skills like driving because I don't have

any places that I need to be. In today's

modern society, everything is just so easy

that you don't really need to have any

skills to be able to survive in life.

Don't even need to know how to cook. I

just go down the convenience store and

buy, buy food there. You know,

back in caveman times, I guess you needed

a lot of skills to be able to survive.

You needed to be able to know how to hunt

and how to defend yourself and how to

build a shelter. Nowadays, you don't need

to know anything. Everything's already

done for you. Takes all the, all the

difficulty out of life, and you're

left with not knowing what to do with

yourself. It's kind of like that Simpsons

episode when Homer gets a new job and they

move to this fancy forest and they live in

a big fancy house which knows how

to do everything itself and it cleans

itself and Marge doesn't really know what

to do anymore because the house does

everything for her and then she just sits

there all day drinking wine. That's how I

feel sometimes and I don't know why I keep

referencing The Simpsons so much today.

Ah, The Simpsons, don't you just love

them? So this is what I did today. I

brought the laundry in because it started

raining. Now the laundry's all wet and

then I brushed my teeth and these are the

jobs I have to do today. I have

to wash 2 cups and a spoon.

Hello and welcome back to another episode

of Cooking with Daniel. Today we're going

to be making fish cakes using fresh

Norwegian mackerel fresh from the

supermarket. We're going to be making fish

cakes using the same recipe as my famous

Beef burger, but instead of using beef,

we're going to be using this lovely piece

of fresh fish. And the way you can tell

the fish is fresh is by pressing it.

You'll be able to see moisture sticking to

the plastic.

Just try and slice the meat

off of the skin and away from the bone.

Like so, until we have lovely

strips like this.

You can do this as well too.

Just— we just need to mash it up basically

so we can make it into a patty.

Make sure there's no bones in there. We

don't want any bones. Okay, now we can

start seasoning the fish cake first by

adding some rock salt, just a little bit,

not too much, and then some black pepper.

And you want to mix that all together

and

just pour the breadcrumbs

all over the place and

rub the breadcrumbs all over and then

gently flip it around.

Okay, maybe we should have added the egg

because it's not sticking together.

That can just go on top.

Wow, that's a really tough yolk. And then

we might need more breadcrumbs because

it's kind of wet now.

And then just Mix it together until it

stops running all over the place.

Okay, after you've finished shaping the

fish cake, transfer it onto a spatula.

As you can see, it should be solid and

it should hold together. Now we need to

transfer it over to the frying pan. As you

can see, we have a frying pan prepared

with oil. We're just going to heat that up

and then start frying the fish cake.

Should be fairly straightforward.

Place it in gently like

so, and we want medium heat. We don't want

it to burn, and just let that fry until it

goes golden brown and then flip it over.

Wow, what a beautiful golden color.

Golden brown.

We are now ready to transfer it onto the

Beautiful.

Let's get a spoon, see what it looks like

on the inside. It's very crispy and

Okay, so we can see the inside has cooked.

Let's give it a try.

I can taste the mackerel and the green

onion.

It's okay, I guess.