Hey, what the heck is going on? I’m Icon, and I enjoy learning new things. I’m 21 years old (at the time of writing) with black, wavy hair, a medium skin tone, and a light frame.
I was born in Dipolog City but grew up in Cavite and Laguna. I speak Bisaya, Tagalog, and English.
As of March 2019, I’m about to finish taking up electronics engineering.
Why are you writing this?
I’m writing this because I want to grow. I want to document the process and see the change.
Doesn’t growth mean life? Someone once said, ‘Once you stop growing you start dying’. Isn’t that true? Look at hundred-year old trees. They never stop growing, adding more rings to their trunks. It’s the same with policemen and their bellies, perhaps.
What does growth mean for you?
What I mean by growth is developing in the four aspects of a person’s life: physical, mental, social, and spiritual.
There are limits to physical growth due to the laws of the universe. For humans, unlimited physical growth will destroy us. No 8 footer lived long. However, it’s different with mental growth. The brain stops growing physically, but the mind grows forever.
Why the heck do you want to grow?
For some reason, growth is satisfying. It has that ‘meaningful’ feeling. You see change. You witness a story. You experience character development.
When I watch Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, 3 Idiots, As Good As It Gets, Ordinary People, and Mean Girls, this is what I feel.
Same with anime like Baby Steps, My Hero Academia, Hunter x Hunter, Space Brothers, Attack on Titan, and more.
I see it also in the Bible with the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samson, David, Solomon, Manasseh, Peter, and Paul.
I just can’t help but experience that satisfying feeling when I see these characters grow and change for the better. (Edit: After watching in 2024, Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia shows the opposite!).
So yes. That’s why I want to grow – because it’s meaningful and satisfying.
What do you expect as you grow?
It means I will make mistakes. I will fail, stumble, and get criticized. I will disappoint some people.
Yes, but isn’t that reality? Who hasn’t, at some point in their lives? Isn’t it more important to keep going, to grow and learn from one’s mistakes?
If I keep going, wouldn’t I also experience success at some point? Wouldn’t it or would it? Wood it