About

Hi, my name is Satyam Ghimire. I am from Nepal. I am 23 years old.

On this website, I try to give some shape and form to my fragmented thoughts. I write about things I notice and find interesting, covering a wide range of topics — mostly movies, ideas, and stories. All articles are filed under tags to make navigation easier and to give you a sense of what to expect. Additionally, I've categorized the articles by border color:

You can go to the archive page to view all the articles published here.

The name "glimpse of details" remarks those details that stood out and paused me. Entertained me. Made me fall in love. Whispered something that translates to "it’s nice here." The name is also an ode to those glimpse of details or meanings I am searching for everywhere. And those glimpse of details that I know deep down will never be found, yet give me pleasure to long for, keep me up at night with dreams and imagination. There is an ant in the logo. I hope you recognized it, though I highly doubt it, as my drawing skills are about as good as my writing skill. I made it an ant because I feel like an ant most of the time.

Birth of the content

For most of the articles, the workflow looks like this. First I think of something. It’s so vague I can’t stop thinking about it. Now after wasting some time, the same wasted time haunts me and demands me to elaborate and work harder on the idea. “You can’t just let it go. What’s the point of thinking this much this whole time?” Then I think of ways to defend my absurd idea with some weak arguments (obviously). And just like that, something is created.

Sometimes I am not able to stop thinking. Writing is a great remedy for that. Some of the articles published here, the first few were actually written 4-5 years ago. Writing for me, in another words, is saying this to myself, "Thank you for thinking about it too much. You have thought about it enough. And it's written here. See? Right here. Now you are free. Now go and think new thoughts."

Why did I start this website?

I always wanted something like this, a place where I can unravel my thoughts and share them with people around the world. One day it got into my mind that starting a website like this will never go in vain. I will always adore this, and the sooner I do it, the better. This will give me a long term purpose and inspire me to see things clearly and with wonder. I can picture myself writing here when I am old. And even in those days when I am just sad and tired of everything and losing hope. The site exists because I was inspired and the same site will inspire me in return, like some self sustaining bi-directional reaction.

Because after all, this whole site is a review of what mattered to me in my life. It would be really cool to see as I age.

I know a lot of people post photos of themselves on social medias, but how many lose hours writing about things that interest them? How many risk to be wrong? I know I am yet again defending myself and making myself seem large and wise, but I am really so proud of this website.

What do I want this website to be?

A portfolio of my existence. I know the world is big and I am so insignificant compared to anything, but no amount of time and scale could deny that I was here. It's like why thousands of years ago people left their hand prints on the wall of the cave. To say that they were here. Same for me.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "We all live in a gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." I agree. This is my attempt to look at the stars. I hope I am doing it fine. Thank you for reading.

Ps: There are so many grammatical errors on this site. I try to identify them as soon as possible and correct them.

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Secondhand Lions: Meaning of Life in an Unexpected Place

You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

By Satyam Ghimire || Date: 2024 April 4

Also available as a YouTube video.
secondhand lions movie

I love watching happy, uplifting movies. Movies that feel like a relaxing trip on a summer's day. So when I came across this recommendation about Secondhand Lions on reddit, like always, I first doubted it, and then was blown away. Now it isn't surprising to find a masterpiece of sentences or monologues in unexpected movies. Like Pixar casually dropping the greatest speech regarding criticism in its masterpiece Ratatouille. Or the alley way monologue from the 1945's Harvey starring James Stewart. Now I won't spoil the movie for you. But anyway, the scene starts with a little boy character finding this old man character by the lake at night.

Sleepwalking. He walks toward the old man and scares him, to awake him and he is awakened. Then the two proceed to have normal conversation like what are you doing here? Go back to sleep. Are you cold? But then after a few lines exchange, the child says that his mother always lies to him and so, he doesn't know what to believe and what not to believe. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. ...continue reading...

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“Just Do It” isn’t That Bad of an Advice After All.

By advising us this, they are actually screaming to their younger self to stop fearing and just do it.

By Satyam Ghimire || Date: 2023 July 17

a woman writing something

Whenever this happens, I feel like an idiot. With hope I search for their advice, for the formula of their success. They also seem impatient to give it, and then I hear or read the same boring advice that I've known for ages. Just do it. Then I search for other, better and more effective, pieces of advice and find them, but nothing seems to work. All I do is keep thinking and piling thoughts inside my head. “It's okay. Masterpieces inside your head don't matter. Only what's visible does.

Only now I have come to realize that I did everything but start. I am always too afraid to start. I am always sharpening the axe but never hitting any tree. Then my mind suggested from some corner the same boring advice to me. Just do it. Don't think. So in this article I am defending why “just do it” doesn't deserve the ignorance it gets, and why we should apply it as soon as possible. To fully grasp the reason behind this answer, we have to understand that every person who made it was a beginner at some point. They had the same fear as us. Probably to start earlier, to linger less with doubts and fears and mere excuses and just start, taking one small step, then another. ...continue reading...