As far as I know, Japanese society values in working as a group. It is understandable when you think about our ancestor’s life style. Japanese ancestors made their living from farming, so that they needed to cooperate one another to produce crops.
In Japanese culture, whenever you spend time alone, people will think of you as a lonely person or a sad person without friends. Or they even label you as a weird person. At least, I had been treated like that.
I belonged to a play troop since I was three years old to ten years old. When I became an adult, I had an opportunity to see my teacher at the play troop again. The teacher told me that I was a very weird and peculiar child. I asked her the reason why. She simply answered to me “because you were always happy even when you were alone.”
In that sense, I am in the midst of luxurious life right now, simply because I have my own alone time daily and regularly.
Once in a while I heard old people saying that they feel lost after they retire from work and raising children. I honestly cannot understand. Because for me, I have a long wish list to do in my free time. I never get bored in my free time. I am actually lacking the time for that.
The truth is though, I appear being alone physically, but I am always surrounded by my family spirits. That way, I am never alone.
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