Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thought: One Hundred and Ninety-One

1. : What's wrong with you?
: You ask as if it matters to you!

2. To know what sorrow is, speak with one
whose sole reason for living has been lost forever.

3. If I had a lot of money,
I would run away from all these tiresome people.

4. I know I am a fool.
I also know there's no place anywhere for fools.
Yet I keep searching for refuge.
Why? Because, as I said, I'm a fool.

5. : What do you have to give me?
: This entire life. I have nothing else that's truly mine.

6. Life is suffering.
Then happiness...but not for long.

7. The person who can draw out
the best in you—
that is your worthy companion.

8. I truly don't know
what else I could have done to avoid this pain.

9. Everything I remember about you
isn't remembered by you at all.
I know this.

10. There must be another world.
Otherwise I wouldn't have to suffer this much!

11. Sometimes it feels good not to speak at all.
Good words, bad words, useful words, useless words...
No, I don't feel like saying anything.

12. Love, friends, wealth...
the more one has, the more imprisoned one becomes.

13. To keep dreaming a dream that will never come true,
to go on dreaming it...
what greater helplessness could there be?

14. Ah, if only I could live without caring
who thinks well of me, who likes me!

15. Since seeing you
I haven't been able to be normal again!

16. I love you. Please forgive me.
(Strange! What wrong did I ask forgiveness for?!)

17. : Do you speak little?
: That depends on what I'm talking about and who I'm talking to.

18. Maybe I'll never understand in my lifetime
why I love you, but
I will love you for my lifetime.

19. Can I not be forgiven?
If I could know you've forgiven me
I wouldn't want anything else in this life.
Don't misunderstand. I'm not asking for you, only for forgiveness.

20. Someday someone
will love you.
And they will love you
every day for the rest of their life.
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