September 20, 1990
I don't intend to say "the Japanese are weird" or "the American approach is wrong." Simply, there are differences between one culture and another. I've spent two years in Japan learning about the differences and discovering the similarities. Coming into contact with a different way of living, a different way of experiencing the world, a place where all your expectations of everyday life are shattered, makes you rethink your habits.
But like Thoreau at Walden Pond, I don't intend to live here forever. I cannot abandon my own life and live as an eccentric in another. I cannot embrace a life which can never fully be mine.
What I'm doing here is learning to see again, and to question the world again, like a child. The difference between an adult and a child is that an adult stops asking why. Those adults who retain their childlike wonder, who never take the world for granted, who never stop looking wide-eyed and the world.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
September 20, 1990
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Konnichiwa, Hajimemashite...Watashi wa Navneet tomo simasu. I am coming to fukuoka next month may be first week of october..I am very well aware of Hiragana and Katakana...But dunno Kanji....Please help me out in this concern if anybody can or suggest me wht should i do or you can also recommend me any good site from where I can learn atleast little kanji..cos I don wanna waste my time.... Navneet desu
Comment by: Navneet. Posted September 12, 2006 12:40 AM.
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What I'm doing in Japan is learning to see again, and to question the world again, like a child.