Conflating the liberty of freedom and burden of choice, and finding the balance in between

Recording this on my phone with low low battery percentage, creativity squeezed from the point of procrastination, derived from energy conserved for a deadline that is quickly coming in four minutes, and yet I am here, brainstorm being, and this rainbow of new ideas.

Anyways, here are some thoughts that sparked in the shower 16th August 2025. Thank goodness for an audio transcription for phones. There are so many ideas that are lost into the shower drain, for the past years and decades of my life. Hey—that’s another idea, that could be quite meta in fact:
1. the result of shower thoughts, what do the shower rooms or atmosphere or bathrooms of creative people who get a lot of inspiration from shower thoughts come from or look like. A collection of shower rooms from famous thinkers and artists in your area. This can also be a collaboration with communal baths or sponsorship from bath tile companies.

2. Life of a people pleaser, focusing on the idea of "press". repress suppress depress impress. A stationary pencil going into a revolving cycle sharpener revolving RE, DE, SU, IM (PRESS)—it can be 3D animation as part of a larger installation focusing on people-pleasing tendency and the resulting consequences upon the human psyche, as well as why this people-pleasing tendency is required to work in larger communities, with contrast and juxtaposition to the West, from an Eastern Asian standpoint.

3. Two juxtaposed interpretations of "My god, I can’t get pregnant." A forum and debate of talks, human library, for people who are anti-natalists as well as people who are pro-children.

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Recording this now on my phone, the battery bar glowing red, low, lower, ready to die—just like the way ideas sometimes vanish when you don’t catch them in time. Strange, isn’t it, how creativity squeezes itself out not when we have space and leisure, but precisely at the point of procrastination, when the deadline hovers like a storm cloud—four minutes left, four minutes only—and yet instead of finishing what I should be doing, here I am, brainstorming, chasing the rainbow of thoughts that keeps spilling out, unstoppable.

These sparks—yes, sparks—came to me in the shower today, 16th August 2025. Thank goodness for transcription apps, otherwise they would have been washed away, trickling down into the drain like all the other unrecorded, unremembered ideas over years, over decades. And oh, that itself is an idea: a project, perhaps, something meta, about the afterlife of shower thoughts. What do the shower rooms of creative people look like, those spaces where their best inspiration bubbles up? A catalogue, a collection: the tiles, the fogged mirrors, the little bottles on the ledge. Imagine: communal bathhouses, or sponsorship from tile companies, turning this drifting notion into something you can walk into, touch.

And then another turn, another fragment: the life of a people pleaser. Repress, suppress, press, impress. Always pressed. A pencil going round and round inside the sharpener, shaving away at itself until it is thin, spent, sharp but fragile. That could be a 3D animation, part of a larger installation on people-pleasing: what it costs, what it gives, the ways it wears down the psyche. Why we do it—why we must do it—to survive in larger communities. And how different it looks when seen through Eastern eyes versus Western ones: contrast, tension, perhaps even beauty.

And then, more raw, more jagged: My god, I can’t get pregnant. A forum, a space, a debate, not just whispers but talks, a human library where those who are anti-natalist sit across from those who long for children, who defend them, who cannot imagine life without them. Two tides meeting, clashing, retreating, returning.

The battery icon blinks at me—soon gone, soon blank—and yet here are these words, saved for now, refusing to be lost.


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手机电量岌岌可危时录下这些：创造力从拖延的夹缝中榨取，源自为四分钟后即将到来的截止日期所储备的能量，而我却在此处进行头脑风暴，追逐这喷涌而出的新想法彩虹。

言归正传，以下是2025年8月16日淋浴时迸发的思绪。感谢手机语音转文字功能——过去数十年间，多少灵感早已随着淋浴水流冲进排水孔。咦，这本身又是个超元概念：
1. 淋浴灵感的具象化：那些常从沐浴中获得启发的创意人士，他们的浴室空间是怎样的存在？收集你所在地区思想家与艺术家的浴室实景，还可与公共澡堂合作或获得瓷砖品牌赞助。

2. 讨好者的一生，以"压/印(PRESS)"为核心意象：压抑(repress)、压制(suppress)、压抑(depress)、取悦(impress)。就像铅笔在旋转削笔器中周而复始地被RE,DE,SU,IM(PRESS)——
可制作3D动画作为大型装置的一部分，探讨讨好型人格的心理代价及其存在的社群必要性，并以东亚视角与西方观念形成对比映照。

3. "天啊我怀不上孩子"的两种对立诠释。创建论坛辩论与真人图书馆，让反生育主义者与生育支持者展开对话。

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此刻用手机录音，电量标志泛着红光，低，更低，即将耗尽——就像那些未能及时捕捉便转瞬即逝的灵感。多么奇妙，创造力总不在闲适从容时涌现，偏在拖延至deadline如乌云压顶之际迸发——只剩四分钟，仅剩四分钟——我本该完成正事，却在此追逐着奔涌不止的思维彩虹。

这些火花——是的，火花——在2025年8月16日的淋浴中降临。幸亏有语音转文字应用，否则它们将如过往数十年间无数未记录的灵感般，顺着排水孔消逝。哦，这本身又衍生出一个元创意：关于淋浴思绪的"后世"。创意人士的浴室是怎样的存在？那些让最佳灵感沸腾的空间。制作图录合集：瓷砖、雾化的镜面、置物架上的瓶瓶罐罐。设想：与公共澡堂合作，或获得瓷砖品牌赞助，让这个飘忽的念头成为可触摸的实体空间。

另一个转折，另一个碎片：讨好者的一生。压抑(repress)、压制(suppress)、压迫(press)、取悦(impress)。永受挤压。如同铅笔在削笔器中循环旋转，不断削薄自己直至尖细脆弱——
可制作3D动画作为大型装置的一部分，呈现讨好型人格的心理磨损与生存代价，探讨其在群体社会中存在的必然性，并展现东西方视角下的差异与张力。

更尖锐的议题是："天啊我怀不上孩子"。创建论坛与真人图书馆，让反生育主义者与渴望孩子、捍卫生育权、视孩子为生命不可或缺的人们直面对话。如同两股浪潮相遇、碰撞、退却、再交融。

电量图标闪烁警示——即将熄灭，即将归于空白——但这些文字已被暂时留存，拒绝湮灭。