👻🌸 88 percent of all men receive flowers for the first time at their funeral.

⚘️ I am 38 years old and have only received flowers (made of plastic) once. I am very open about my preference for flowers.

🦋✨️ I really try hard to be seen, and yet I am mostly reduced to superficialities. If I even show myself vulnerable, I should almost be grateful not to be sanctioned.

🫡🤷‍♂️🖼 This is also evident in my posts. Compliments often concern the object depicted (beautiful flower, great sunset, nice body) but rarely the manner of depiction, let alone the meta-level of what is depicted.

🧠💯✌️ By the way, I received my acceptance yesterday after passing my entrance exam!

⚙️🔢🎨 That's another point: artistic talent and mathematical-technical understanding are often seen as irreconcilable opposites, even though there are sufficient examples of compatibility, both historically and in contemporary terms.

🌈👨‍🎨👨‍💻💭 As a media designer and computer scientist, I can do both, and over the next few years I will be deepening my mathematical understanding.

👨‍🏫👾👩‍🏫 Computer science and mathematics, by the way, are still male-dominated fields. Mainly because women are often not trusted or encouraged to do so. However, the first person to write a computer program was a woman. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was a British mathematician and socialite. She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

🎭🧩💬 By the way, 70 percent of my followers are women. I've posted quite a few things that women could have commented on, because they concern issues that are, or should be, important to women as well.

🌱 Just saying.

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Yesterday, I had to run some errands for my entrance exam for my mathematics and technical education program. On the way home, an inner urge led me to the cemetery where some of my ancestors are buried. I cleared the grave of fallen branches and reflected on the passage of time. These Higan cherries were blooming beautifully in the cemetery. Higan, 彼岸, means "distant shore". I have my exam tomorrow. It will take place at an address on a street named after my great-grandfather, the Hilpertstrasse in Darmstadt. He was a politician who is buried in this cemetery.

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