Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Ninety-One

1. : Why aren't you getting married?
: Why did you get married?
: Answer my question.
: I did.

2. Before I found you
I was alone.
After I found you
I became lonely.

3. : I understand that you misunderstand me.
: Then why didn't you ever say so?
: Fear.
: Fear of what?
: Of losing.
: Losing what?
: I don't know.

4. Before you came into this life
life was much more beautiful.
Thank you — only because you came
did I recognize life's beauty.

5. Someone who doesn't know you at all —
if they don't behave as you wish,
what's the point of staying upset about it?

6. How to miss you without it being a sin —
these days I think about that too!

7. Some people are born to be cursed.
Even if the world turns upside down,
they'll keep on doing things worth cursing!

8. Hatred is like a clock.
It stays with you constantly
and keeps reminding you:
you are enslaved... you are enslaved...

9. There's no greater punishment
than living with someone who has mental problems.

10. Pure gold is never shiny.
Pure people are never shiny either.

11. When you're beside me
everything stays just right.

12. To love someone out of fear or pretense —
there's no greater helplessness than that.

13. A time comes in life
when one realizes
that the person beside them will always misunderstand,
yet now there's nothing left to be done.

14. After a certain age
the experience of sexuality ends.
What remains then is just survival.
I'm not speaking of saints. Humans are not saints.

15. People generally don't receive more love than they deserve.
If they do, it destroys them.

16. I get my work done more systematically
when I'm alone.

17. I view life like a film.
Too much pretense doesn't make a good movie.
So in living my life I've always been direct.
I don't care for propriety, I value truth.

18. They read scriptures without understanding.
They're happy and tiresome with their faith.
They're religious, they want by force
for everyone to be religious like them.

19. : Why do you still love me after all this time?
: Loving you gives me some strength. Some peace. I feel reassured. I love because I love. There's no reason. Only feeling.

20. Don't tidy up my room.
When it's not messy, I can't find anything.
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