It's all about perspective: Justice

People have some common notion, such as protecting your kids and arresting bad people. But, in some difficult situation, people think differently, and some notion that seems to be stable can waver. And people can change their principle via the logical way. People first adopt one principle, but change that with logical way.
And when considering Justice, the definition of Justice is different depending on person. But, the structure of society, law, common sense must rely on Justice that is shared among everyone. And this is why it is so difficult to establish new rule because there is no definition. That is why we have to talk about it together. We have to discuss, see one example, and you notice that you have one principle spontaneously, but some have other principle, and as discuss about it, you can convince the other or be convinced by the other in logical way. The first principle we would have spontaneously, is planted in deep inside us as you grow up, and that may be biased. But, don't be afraid that you can be critical about that to yourself by rethinking how you think about it and why you think so. Discussion is effective way to see yourself and think about your society.
And the professor Michael Sandel at Harvard Univ introduce the importance and fun of discussion and passion. He was well welcomed in Japan because Japan did not have the culture of discussion and his idea was appreciated. Now, I still can not express my ideas well, how can I be like him.? Well, it is not like being like him, it is about do what you love thoroughly, that ability comes anyway. I think

Merry Christmas: hmm no, Happy Holidays

I heard in the very last class of English this year, from my teacher that in America, people who have to communicate with many people such as hotel clerk and department store clerk have to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" When I heard about this, I was so curious that in Japan we really don't care about religion or anything else, there are Americans who are really rigid about their Christianity so they sometimes protest about the trend people enjoying Christmas. This is why Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

In Japan, many people plan to stay with their lover with beautiful illuminated scenery and this notion is so common that people who are alone or don't have boyfriend/girlfriend can be seen as loser, and I am one of them from general perspective. But, of course I am not loser:: But this is interesting that Japan has single notion oriented culture. And I often think, that I have to see it from meta perspective, and evaluate it so that I can be remote from that and I can take it in myself if it is a good tradition, and on the contrary I can refuse it.

But anyway, America is so big, that I realized that I have to see the world more. I have to be more world oriented guy. and of course I will be definitely.

John Forbes Nash: the genius

The other day, I watched academy award winning film "Beautiful Mind" that features the struggle of one mathematician, and amazingly this film is non-fiction. Nash has been always smart, and he did not like to communicate with people and he even thought something like dancing and sports can be obstacle of his way of learning. He went to college and majored chemistry and electricity not math because his father recommended to do, and he changed major to math later and went to Princeton, and the recommendation letter to Princeton included just one sentence that is "This man is genius"
And he has research on math and get interested in Game Theory, and he proved that there is at least one point of benefit for both in the condition of non-zero sum activity between 2 objects. This finding makes him famous. And he went to MIT, and got married to his student, but around this time, he gets mental illness, even worse, he tries to prove the Leman Prediction that was really hard, and yet nobody proved this until now. And he got schizophrenia. And he recovered a little by little, and he started his study again and got novel economic prize.

Kagerou by Hiro Mizushima

Japanese new writer Hiro Mizushima recently published his first book after quitting his job as actor. He succeeded in his job of act. But he suddenly quit, and became an writer. And his book sold a lot of copies. And the feedback after publication was terrible. quote "everything is planed" meaning he won the prize and he refused to take money and that really got attention.
Now, many people in Japan are jealous about him. He is bilingual, and was very good soccer player, and graduated one of the best university in Japan, and he is handsome, and succeeded in his job, and married to beautiful and successful woman, and he also succeeded in writing. Seems perfect, right? And now the review page of his book on amazon, a lot of people ranked his book very low, whether his book is good or not, people's jealous come out as that.
Jealous appears when someone occupy the limited resources, if you love someone, and he/she talks with someone, his/her limited attention or mind is not directed toward you, and you might feel the loss of something and that becomes jealousy.
The reaction toward jealousy should be considered deeply, I mean, if you act motivated by jealous, your act can be really missing point , with taking good care of jealous, your act will be strategic. Your motivation becomes clear, and with realistic thinking, you are one step beyond of the previous situation.

In order not to forget..

Today, before going to part time job(at the youth hostel), I was asked to hang bed sheets of my parents, and my mom said that was in the wash machine. And I thought of course my mom is busy, OK, I'll do it later, no problem. And then, I completely forgot, I was watching TV and went to work.
And I came home, my parents prepared to sleep, my dad said, where is my sheets?? and I realized I completely forgot and felt so sorry. I could not have any excuse.
And now, writing the blog in English, this is what I decided to do everyday, now it has been 9 days since the last time I wrote, now I feel terrible about my responsibility and weakness of will.
Now, of course I don't wanna keep this, and I won't let this happen again, or optimistically I will decrease the number that happens, I have to think the strategy of not forgetting my job.
First, I came up that to make list. Writing down makes responsibility so much clear. Using iPod touch and write it in the To do list. But, I don't wanna use any tool to remember.
so, I have to imagine what will happen if I forget, this should be very good strategy. But, I still don't know what is the best. I have to keep this in mind anyway. But, the most significant thing that I have to change is that I completely don't have interest in those thing (house chores etc..) That makes me forget.

成人式 the traditional Japanese Ceremony for new adults

In Japan, we have traditional ceremony on the second Monday of January every year to celebrate new adults. Adults here mean that people who become 20 years old.
Generally new adults have their ceremony party in their region, people in the same region get together, and they usually were classmate in same elementary school or middle school in most cases. I went to private middle school, so after I graduated from elementary school, I was separated from my friends in elementary school. Now it has been almost 8 years since graduation of elementary school.
And now I am 20 years old , and ready to have the ceremony, and now I am so excited to see my old friends, but with a little nervousness because it' been so long time that I don't even imagine how they have become now. I am afraid the relationship we had could be of course becomes weak as time passes by. But mainly , I really wanna see my old friends, it is gonna be so much fun to see and know my friends again.

More willingness to speak English

I really like watching video that features playing video game, and in ニコニコ動画, there are a lot of videos uploaded by someone. And I followed one uploader and he plays Call Of duty:Black Ops, of course speaking in Japanese. But, today I found one of his video that he plays talking in English. He says he has not studied abroad or lived abroad, and as I could hear, his English was like pronounced in Japanese style, but his English was pretty good.
And this is what I really found it useful, his video indicates that if you want to practice speaking English, everything could be ingredients of practice. Even playing video game, if you really want to be able to speak English. For example, you could speak everything you feel , think in English in daily life. e.g. while you take bath, you can recall what you did today, what did you feel, and what are you gonna do tomorrow. This implication can be applied to everything you do.
The most important thing of leaning something is that your passion. You have to be aware why you learn that? , what is the goal? and what do you do to achieve that. And as I see people succeeded, most of them really like the field. This is the most important. I think. If you really like the field , and put a lot of effort, and push yourself everytime, compete, be always hungry and not stop, money comes anyway.
Now, I really like studying English, and of course I am definitely gonna be able to speak English fluently, from now on, I start talking to myself in English as much as possible.