About

Hello! I’m Unhotar. Obviously, that is not my real name. The reason I’m not using my real name or showing my face on this blog or my social media accounts is that I’m a medical doctor by profession. Being a doctor means that your social media presence could lead to consequences I’m not ready to face right now. Nevertheless, I’m a real person and I’m assuming that sooner or later some people will figure out who I am. My friends already know, of course.

What does Unhotar mean?

It doesn’t actually mean anything, but the name probably feels familiar to Finns. Unho is a Finnish male and family name. The “-tar” (or “-tär”) ending is used to indicate a female professional, for example: näyttelijä = actor and näyttelijätär = actress.

As a noun, “unho” is used in poetry to mean “unohdus” (a state of being forgotten or disremembered). A related word is “unhola”, which means basically the same thing (I think). The “-la” ending emphasizes the state of forgetting being like a permanent place (the ending “-la” is common in Finnish place names and family names, for example: mummo = grandmother, mummola = the place/house where the grandmother lives).

Why did I create this blog?

In October 2023 I got a really bad burnout. I couldn’t work at all for almost three months. I just laid on my bed and mostly slept. When I was awake, I watched lots and lots of TikTok videos. I saw really nice videos about people doing their own bookbinding. Then I saw other videos about people making beautiful things with their hands.

Around February or March 2024, I was working part-time and started to think that maybe I could be doing something myself. This is a classic case of “TikTok made me buy it!” And because I enjoyed all those videos myself, I thought maybe I could do them as well.

And so it began. I started publishing my videos on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Currently, I only have a few followers, but that’s ok. I created this blog so I could perhaps write down some of my thoughts, which I cannot do in the videos. Maybe I do some tutorials. I don’t know yet.

If for some reason I’m not publishing anything, it probably means that I’m very, very tired. Unfortunately, recovering from burnout has not been as quick as I would have hoped. But at least I’m feeling more positive now and trying out new things!

Welcome to follow my journey!