is strange. For a week I began to listen to the soundtrack of Amelie Poulain. And what is even more strange is that I can still feel after you listen to Valse d'Amélie. Shopgirl song that can easily play the piano, and that can be unpacked to impress girls and mothers to cry, he nevertheless something magical. A simple melody that grips the heart, which was invented only once. Even after years, you feel the same feelings, and we love this romantic music of shopgirl.
I do not really know where to begin this review of a semester. Maybe by this vision, always about the same thing.
I was at the train door at Le Havre. We were both in the car but one of the two of us remain on the platform. We do not say anything. He had to leave to experience new things, as if to say something else, change reality after spending an intense year who could not live on itself. "Live a lot of things, one after the recount," I told him. Then we kissed, and the train left. Since then, everything was mixed in my head. Everything has turned into another story, which began with an abnormal return, vibrating love, but also unwanted, who did not want a year of happiness to go away in the closet of memories with theatrical costumes and all their faces bright. And s'enchaînèrent misunderstandings, doubts, arguments, wickedness, bad faith, contempt inexplicable. And then there was the separation, and bitter cold. Still no substrate visible change, just the silence in an empty lot (you can see the herbs gently move but we hear no birds sing.)
Why rehash it? Maybe because these things are present in my mind. Because even if they claim to erase, move towards a better claim, they are still there, though. As my feeling after Valse d'Amélie. And why in such an article? Because this story, despite all the efforts and successes, all the same colored much this part of the semester, but perhaps not with the most beautiful painting possible. Tokyoites My adventure is not limited of course not this. But Japan is also the story and I can not deny it.
I just spent almost five months in Japan, one of the most developed countries in the world. Coming here, I first realized the importance of preparing its travel and go places that we really look. Not that I committed a blunder by coming here. It's just that I too follow a herd and the certainties of Sciences Po, and finally, I came here with false expectations. After this first difficulty, we must still find his account because he is not to be the spoiled child who is not happy in one of the most fascinating countries on the planet! Because if there is a fascinating city, wonderful, bombastic, it's Tokyo, the great swallower. Small streets like Grand Avenue, in a torrent of dazzling light. Ants everywhere, shopping everywhere, from everywhere. A large city almost always occurs immediately atomization of individuals. In a big city, we quickly found himself lost in a crowd. Stand out is difficult. One becomes a human being connected to a mobile phone, cosmic communion with other individuals so alone and lost in the phone contacts. But this is not necessarily sad. Tokyo foreign city, finally brings us back to ourselves. Because the cliché that accompanies travel is quite true: we discovered even more so when traveling. Looks like Michaux: "Travelling for s'apauvrir, here is what you need." Undressing certainty, to find himself naked and with nothing but a huge page to write.
If there is a balance to do in Japan, the balance of friendship. Making friends or French international is something quite easy and makes everyday brighter and brighter. Everyone is in the same state of mind, ie travel and discovery. I myself am rather surprised by my fluency easily link me with people like that. Despite the distance that I care, as a habit rather than distrust, this topic is not very difficult.
In contrast, some pretty tough here, and perhaps most interesting is to make Japanese friends who have never lived abroad and who do not speak English. Not that this is impossible! On the contrary! I quickly realized that the problem may not be alleged that the Japanese put distance between themselves and strangers, but rather can be a double set of seriality. By saying that the Japanese are ahead of difficult access, it crashes may be more, unless we dare to approach them, and build a friendship suddenly becomes more difficult. Finally, a major problem may be the language: to speak is to think and speak evil is to show a thought obsolete, it does not fully show itself, where more time important.
What I realized here is that despite cultural differences, there is one similarity, a little something that we can all agree, as a human being. This grand banality is actually rather a radical rejection of cultural relativism. There are many similarities between the Japanese and ourselves, and perhaps more than differences. The shape is just different, but the shape is also the background, the background is different. It is a dialectical interplay between the same and different: is this charming Japanese concept of the Other that one studies in Philosophy in Terminal! It was inevitable that it means something!
So in terms of Japanese friends: Yes! Yes, slowly but surely, I'm making Japanese friends. Some are really starting to open, as I open myself to them. While we appreciate the refinement, this attention to detail and the other, kindness, politeness, intelligence, beauty, humor, but shyness, mood swings, distance, fear, fascination ... Experiments are ultimately what we feel with anyone else. It's just that everything is in disorder, and it takes time to reconstruct the puzzle of cultural difference.
If I am optimistic about the Japanese themselves, I am much less when the Japanese company. Perhaps this will change you it during the year, but in any case, I have no desire to make my life here. The lives of Japanese seems to be connected to one and the same thing, work. Quite simply, all examples of our textbooks talk or duties that must Sato san back home, either part-time job Moriyama kun. Here, work and effort are the cardinal virtues of working people. A child, after leaving primary school, will return to college and high school, where he will prepare for an entrance to the University. Of course, as this competition is difficult, smarter and more affluent take evening classes, which will summarize their school life at work. Once at the university, they study the material that inspires them most, from Art to Religion through the German and mathematics. They come in a club, they demandra an investment that can sometimes go three hours every night. They take a Baito or small job to earn money for fun once a week. From their third year they will begin to seek work, attend business seminars of all kinds. And so, if all goes well, because it is the crisis for almost 20 years, they touver a trade out of their fourth year. Thus, a student of Icelandic literature Bulgarian or banker can end up as a student of "culture and religion" being in a logistics company. Then, in this business, they work all year, with two weeks off per year, an explosion of hours per week, take the train at midnight to go home, if they do not stay in the asleep Metro after two hours of travel.
course this description is arbitrary, imprecise, is based on observations, and applies
much in Tokyo as Japan in general. It also can be a bit exaggerated. However, I can not help thinking that this country is doomed, as if the economic depression for so long that this was a reflection of a country that finally bored of having acquired everything. After the toilet in the glasses heated jet automated washes behind you and the vibrator "Hello Kitty", I do not know what the Japanese are going to be able to invent to find something to appreciate, once capitalism They were all brought to share the happiness and well being. And I'm not saying this for free. I spoke with my professor of literature, American, who would love to live in Europe, because "You guys Understood That a life Where You Are Working To Live Is not Worth Living. "Like what, 35 hours and months of paid leave, it can also dreaming the American and Japanese capitalists without question.
Challenging and integration into the world of work. How to make a discrete transition on me and my little person. The trip and my stay at Sophia shown me that I was increasingly difficult to cope with the academic and courses. Right now I'm completely lost. Twenty different Master. A life full of so much more exciting alternatives. I do not know absolutely what I want to do with my life. researcher, politician, artist, director, weaver of dreams. Do everything is impossible. And every choice involves a waiver, an opportunity cost. What a terrible law! I'm 22 and I have no idea. "On the top of the world, you've got nothing done" looks like Brian Molko. I just want to lose, no longer having to think. Create, create art and make people happy, intelligent, informed, aware, loving, extravagant, living. But also want to travel, get lost in the jungle, in the heart of darkness. To go in darkness, that these unknown hands take me to make me what they want to make me another.
Arty Farty
"I Want to Take You Away Lets Escape Into
the music DJ let it play
I just can not refuse it Like the way
you do this Keep on rockin
to it Please do not stop the Please do not stop the
Please do not stop the music "
violence and alcohol circulating in my veins
few neurons fought in my brain
At the entrance of the cave, the pale distant voices
Vampires Homnivore a cross on his back.
In the dark night out of their black coffins
Great men very tall, jet-black hair
The looks delicious, devouring clouds
The soft prey straight out of the evening breeze.
We then took the iron, I marked the wrist
A glass of blood donated, thrown straight into Hell
friend at my side, vision of Lucifer
deadly Vision, we are damned.
In the den of vampires, so we threw
Frightened primarily by their sapphire eyes
scary Their smiles, their calm tone wax
Long fingers silent, seeming to seal my fate.
Music is vital, fear fast asleep
around human beings that want to enjoy and embrace
love his faces made of gold:
Our screams of fear turned into laughter.
"You never bathe twice in the same river" Heraclitus said. "Everything flows". The third year we all went mad, or rather, made us all white. A desire not to be what was this feeling to do what we could not do before. Many couples have exploded. Friendships were created, while others have vanished, or we pretend to hatch and eventually die in the egg. We are all, more than ever, individuals and subject only to the great tapestry of our lives without really knowing what to write on it, but with a firm resolve not to make white copy. I do not know what to think the concept of "personal revolution" nor the change in itself. There is anyway not enough to judge such a sense of axiological manner. This is neither good nor bad. Just want to explode with light, push farther and do things that our parents may have never had the opportunity to do. And sometimes you see the change, and we can not fight against him. And then we see the boat away from shore, the familiar face fading into the mist, while one plunges into darkness, with the browser changer that takes us not toward death but towards the reality of life.
But sometimes there are things that do not change much. At least, they differ, take another rhetorical and other conversations. So I would like to thank Miss Star that I never mentioned Here on this blog. Without knowing why, I began to rethink her when I saw the nocturnal landscapes scroll while I was on the train. After a smile, I just wanted to thank her, tell her she was missing, and I wished her all the happiness in the world. Thank you for being there when it was really wrong. Not to be part of not having cleared while our situation when I left was far more complex and profound than the last story that has left so much suffering, misunderstandings and discomfort. Why, thank you. Advance does not always mean a clean slate of the past.
And to know it better:
http://mademoisellestellaire.blogspot.com/ An incomprehensible sadness. We found ourselves in a room, the light glows dimly, wept after, both for the same reasons, even if our stories were not so intertwined. Lying on the bed, the mass in front of me was very drunk. I spent my arms around his back and closed my eyes. The lack, the void: the bullies that come up that we understand why those who make us think only people who persevere in our being, beings who live only through desire, and outside of ourselves, in good Spinoza. I then kissed her face and lips, but water has flowed over the walls, the petals of the flowers were down on themselves, and the wind stopped blowing out the windows. The sad part is closing the door, showing me the constancy of life, and inconsistencies of desire. And above all we need to be alone, to better discover.
"Voyage, voyage! Later, as night and day!" Desireless
I leave for two months outside of Japan. I'll do a month of training in Vietnam, and probably a month in China. I really need from Japan, need to experience something different, less sanitized, leaving the reality that I saw only half of m'apauvrir more. Maybe where I go, I do not find what I was looking for, but the important thing to look right? The answer somewhere, who cares!
As you can see, this picture is rather mixed, with shadows and lights, as realistic as can be love, money, friendship or the death of Carlos and Michael Jackson. Anyway, thank you Sciences Po! At least, this school will be used to something: to show us that we must adapt knowledge and change in this world of constant rotation. Pure products of the globalization
maybe? Or simply have their twenties and lost, and say shit at all.
Anyway, back to France: Oh no!