When you are truly living in a moment you don’t notice it; it slides by with ease and speed. However if you appreciate those instances, you inevitably end up stepping back, cocking your head to one side and reflecting. In hindsight memories are spread out on the table like photographs from a shoebox. You circle around the display, pace twice, and hunch over with your hands on each corner. The restlessness passes and you simple exhale and take a look. From there you have insight, the ability to relive and actually notice what you’ve learned, and understand what is worth cherishing. It’s nostalgic, necessary and happening all the time. These are my twilight-days in Japan. It’s about time I sat down and had a little look.
In a few moments I am heading out the door to Sumiyoshi. From there I'm catching a bus to Kyoto and riding it until morning. Maybe I'll find something there. Conditions are right, I think.
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Natsume Soseki: A lecture to the students at Gakushuin University
"More simply stated, individualism is a philosophy that replaces cliquism with values based on personal judgment of right and wrong. An individualist is not forever running with the group, forming cliques that thrash around blindly in the interests of power and money. That is why there lurks beneath the surface of this philosophy a loneliness unknown to others. As soon as we deny our little groups, then I simply go my way and let the other man go his, unhindered. Sometimes, in some instances, we cannot avoid becoming scattered. That is what is lonely.”
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