Japan

YOUTH: My life is determined at this exact point? PHILOSOPHER: Yes, because the past does not exist.

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of the fleeting, changeable, and imperfect nature of the world around us. Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.

When one is trying to be oneself, competition will inevitably get in the way.

If ‘one day’ are magic words that keep a dream alive, what do I need to say to make it real?

All Japan has been concreted over. The last forests are now discarded chopsticks, the Inland Sea is covered and declared a national parking lot, and where mountains once stood apartment buildings vanish into the clouds. When people reach the age of twenty their legs are amputated and their torsos are fitted with interfaces that plug directly into