On being nobody

[Mulboyne]

John Burdett, author of detective stories set in Thailand, writes this in "Bangkok Haunts" about foreign men living in the city:

They have long been a curiosity with me, these farang men who come here to be nobody, as if even that role is too stressful in the utopia of origin.

Substitute gaijin for farang and it's perhaps not a bad observation for some foreigners in Japan. Of course, I'm perfectly well-balanced.

[Takechanpoo]

Substitute gaijin for farang and it's perhaps not a bad observation for some foreigners in Japan. Of course, I'm perfectly well-balanced.

Yeah, you continue to escape from real yourself until die.
And it is your life itself.

[Mulboyne]

..You continue to escape from real yourself until die.
And it is your life itself.

You sound like Daisaku Ikeda.

[Midwinter]

You sound like Daisaku Ikeda.

Burn