An Introduction

Gentle Haze
2 min readFeb 12, 2021
Photo by Iulia Mihailov on Unsplash

Do I come up with a cool name for this? Yes.

Do I have a story behind it? Maybe.

Do I understand that I need to explain the meaning? Kind of.

When I was a little girl, I used to love writing in my diary. Afterschool thoughts had always encouraged me to write or at least describe a photo taken at an event.

As time goes by, everything that I wrote is all about things I studied. The older version of me got no time to do things that I used to love.

I always store my thoughts only in my head. Am I often trying hard to remember something good to say or to write, but then forgot about it? Yup, that’s me.

Then, let me tell you a little bit more about myself.

The Story Behind Gentle Haze

First of all, I always love the word gentle. It has a meaning of a calm and kind nature. Have you ever sit alone on a rainy day or maybe sit at a coffee shop, listening to the sound of water falling from the window? That is how you can feel the gentleness slowly wrap into your heart.

No matter how harsh the lightning strikes, all you can hear is the gentle of the rain.

How about the haze?

On the contrary, haze has a meaning of obscurity or confusion. I know it sounds problematic because it is a phenomenon that happens in big cities. Based on ASEAN Haze Action Online, haze is formed when gaseous pollutants react in the atmosphere. This can cause blurry visibility.

Some of you (even me) may experience a hazy year in 2020 because you do not know what to expect. The uncertainty makes you feel like walking in a long corridor without end.

Everything was hazy indeed but you continue to walk with a handful of hope.

Gentle Haze represents a loving way to see the ups and downs in life.

Someone used to say to me if you live a non-problematic life, you are not curious enough.

Now, what is your Gentle Haze?

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