Before officially introducing this EP, I’d like to share a story.

I’ve always kept a diary. I started back in elementary school, using those simple notebooks you could find in stationery stores, and eventually switched to the app I use today. 

One night, on a whim, I decided to revisit some of my old diary entries. As I read through them, I suddenly burst into tears, because one of the entries said, “I feel like there’s nothing left to live for. I wouldn’t even mind if I died just like this.”

“If I’m going to keep living, then I have to pretend to be like everyone else, acting as though I have clear goals and working hard to achieve them. But even if I do reach those goals, so what? What does it all mean? None of these things can be taken with me after death, so why should I go to such lengths to chase after something so meaningless?”

I never realized just how deeply hopeless I had become back then.

It was actually around the time my album "沉癮 Sink in" was released in 2019. I had set so many goals for myself, and the pressure came crashing down on me from every direction. On the surface, it seemed like I knew exactly where I was headed, but in reality, I had become lost in a fog. I lost sight of who I was and could no longer find myself. The music videos I had planned to shoot and the album tour I had intended to embark on were all temporarily put on hold. I was in so much pain that I simply couldn’t keep pushing myself any longer, so I decided to take a break and give myself some time to rest.

It wasn’t until later that I realized I had already strayed from my core values when I first began setting those goals. No matter how hard I worked toward them, the results would only take me further away from who I truly was. And more often than not, what led me down this path was the expectations of others or the pressure of public opinion.

After going through that experience, I came to realize that I needed to build my goals around things that would nurture my inner self and allow me to grow as a person. I needed to take the time to truly understand myself and explore what I genuinely wanted out of life. To me, this felt far more meaningful and grounding than pursuing goals based solely on external achievements, numbers, or material possessions.

However, we don’t always know from the beginning that this is the way we can choose to live. Along the way, we stumble, struggle, and get hurt over and over again. The people around us may never understand why we’re suffering, leaving us alone in a corner, feeling lost and helpless.

I feel incredibly fortunate to be a music creator, to have the ability to transform the emotions and experiences I encounter in life into melodies and share them with others. 

And that is the concept behind my EP, Where Do We Go. I dedicate this EP to everyone who has ever gone through something similar to what I have experienced.