Be True

Finishing revising a paper submitted to a journal. Spent most of the time writing a rejoinder to reviewers’ comments.

Felt pretty exhaustive and meaningless doing this. Always this norm of what a paper should look like to become of itself relevant to contemporary issues. Why is that? Is that so important? Are all that taking a different approach from fashionable ones not worth reading and their questions and thoughts, worthless and pointless?

People easily forgot what it means by questioning which, to me, is so valuable a gesture that, if losing it, one is prone to failing an authentic existence. Calls me traditional and out-of-dated. Yes, I still believe in that authenticity, one that may not be a truth to all, yet is one to myself.

I want to be true to myself. At least in this respect.