If you knew what you wanted, could you make it your life?
What if it was money? Would you give your life's time for that?
What if you could make money by forming relationships with people, and those people would then support you by buying your 'product'?
To decide what you want, what your 'job is in life', is so difficult that I think many people don't do it out of fear they'll pick the wrong thing. Unfortunately, indecision doesn't stop us from aging.
Devoting your life to one thing means giving up the other things, no longer caring about them. How do we do that?
Only by conscious choice. And unaltering concentration.
So what do you want?
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Thursday, May 19, 2005
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Hi! How have you been? Yuji and I are fine now. We'll be back to arao this weekend.
I went to Tokyo last weekend. I wonder if my opinion is an answer to your question. I talked to you about my lessons in Tokyo, right? The concept of our lesson is how to get beauty, love, money and job in our life. Actually my teacher has everything though she is only 32. To get everything, we learn the base of our society from the economic viewpoint. After I come over her books and her school, I changed my thoughts. Now I think I can do anything I want to do and I can be anyone (personality or job)who I want to be at anytime(even we are aging). I mean I don't need to choose just one thing. But I think most people can't many things at the same time so I do one by one. I'm sure if I concentrate or achieve one thing, I can get a chance and see the another future or the world. I also became to think if I have time to think which job is good or suitable for me and so on, just do it that I want to do now.
Finally, my teacher said the last lesson,"If my company went bankrupt, I just could think another business."
Hi Yoshimi, I'll be happy to see you and Yuji this weekend. I'll be wishing Yuji good luck on his test. Are you still planning a trip to Kagoshima in June?
Like you said, it's always possible to do one thing and then change later and do another thing. What about sticking with one thing? It makes me think about how easily people get divorced these days in America. What would it take to just stick with the person who you chose? Who chose you? Do we really find deep satisfaction because people and things around us change?
I know that my experience here has shown me that as long as I'm alive, there's only one thing I know, and it's that I'm alive. My concept of family has changed. My concept of relationships has changed. My concept of work has changed. But I have to deal with my mind and my body every day.
Maybe you are right after all. The change that happens outside us doesn't really matter so much as doing our best to take care of what's happening on the inside. After all, we'll have to deal with what we create of ourselves until the day we die...
Your simple question isn't so simple after all. Maybe Yoshimi will loan you her books.
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