About

What is this blog?

Barefoot Future is a blog I started in reaction to all the negativity and srs bsnz on the internet, and in life in general. It’s about letting go of stresses and worries, about forgetting the uncertain, and embracing those fun, supposedly frivolous upsides to life. It’s a “Happiness Project” of friends and books, travel and dreams, cute dramas and good music, Starbucks and shoes. No politics or serious issues here, please. Just an overflow of childish excitement for delicious cakes, fluffy animals, and entertaining Japanese boybands.

It’s a blog by me, for me, to savour all the things I find fun and comforting in an increasingly uncomforting world. Although anyone else who stumbles across it is welcome into this world, I did not start this with the purpose of attempting to speak to the internet at large.

Barefoot Future was started August 19th, 2009.

Why “Barefoot Future”?

Barefoot Future is a translation of the title of the song, Hadashi no Mirai (裸足の未来), by the Japanese group, Arashi.

Be happy even if there’s no reason.

These feelings are not lying.

Pump up your tired heart and start running.

Open up your passion,

Yes, for no reason!

Reach for tomorrow.

Go and collect the pieces of the future.

The lyrics (although terrible to translate into English) pretty much summed up what I wanted to do with this blog.

So “裸足の未来へこのまま行けばいい” means…?

Roughly “Go into the barefoot future.” It, obviously, is a line from the same Arashi song.

And you are…?

The posts in this blog hopefully fill this part in for me. But the quick summary: I’m a student at Princeton University, but am originally from Britain. I travel whenever I can. I’m studying Japanese, and am obsessed with Japanese drama and the boyband Arashi. I love reading novels (and writing novels?), and try to spend as much free time as possible hanging out with my friends, watching old British Comedies and playing the geeky card game Munchkin. I can usually be found in Starbucks, or at the public library, sipping frappuchinos, browsing Young Adult novels, and handwriting letters to distant friends.