Let's KY (2014)

(This entry is a rewrite of the previous entry.)

Do you know the word KY ?

"KY" is  for short "Kuuki no Yomenai hito" in Japanese.

That means "Person who can't read the atmosphere"

This word is expressed a negative trait of the Japanese very well.

At school, work, home, family, community,

We have been facing invisible pressure "Reading the atmosphere".

Many Japanese people do not like KY.

KY is bullied, depressed, and in the worst case, choose death.

One of the most important skills to survive in Japanese society is reading the atmosphere. 

Doing the same thing, same hobby, watching the same TV show.

For example,

Japanese Recruitment Suit. 

In the job search, companies do not request students to wear a recruitment suit.

But the atmosphere enforces students to wear the recruitment suit.

I was always frightened whenever I watch the news of the initiation ceremony.

Because all new recruits wear the same suits.

However, let's think about

People who changed the world, 

People who are successful,

I believe that they are KY.

Edison ,Einstein, John Lennon, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc, etc.

Steve Jobs, Apple's founder, said

Your time is limited, 

so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Don't be trapped by dogma 

- which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

Life is very short.

But we spend a lot of time thinking about other people.

Finally,

Let's think about the first person who ate sea cucumber.

I think he is a KY.

Thanks KY!

Now we can eat a sea cucumber.

I strongly respect the first person who ate sea cucumber.

I want to be them rather than a person in the status quo.

We can live in such a wonderful and fantastic world thanks to such a person like them.

Let's KY!