Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Contemplative Bonsai: One Hundred and Ninety-Seven

1. Creative people are always a burden on their families.
Families are always a burden on creative people.

2. : I hate you.
: It's okay.

3. Don't annoy me.
I have no interest in hearing your endless stories about your nobility.
More importantly,
I have no expectations from you.

4. Come, let's one day have the courage to quit our jobs.
Come, let's one day have the courage to live.

5. The child about whose upbringing parents constantly worry,
is the same child who, once grown, keeps the parents constantly worried.

6. Noise — noise is the language of fools.

7. Every life is precious.
Every path is right.
You could have lived another life!
You could have walked another path!

8. If, despite your best efforts,
you cannot understand where you stand,
then hold on to something.
Then walk carefully in that faith.

9. You don't really love me.
You only love feeling
how intensely I love you.

10. I'm willing to do whatever you want.
Just don't go away.

11. I know I enjoy talking with you.
I also know you enjoy making fun of our conversations with your friends.

12. There's no one to annoy me.
That's why I'm alone.

13. You yourself let me go.
And now you're saying I shouldn't have left!

14. I was missing you terribly.
Okay, now get to work.
Enough of hearing your voice.

15. O God! I love you so much,
and yet you keep giving me such pain?
Those who don't care about you at all —
they seem to be doing just fine!

16. Living has become terribly painful.
I can't understand
how to turn my mind elsewhere!

17. : Why don't you ever talk about yourself?
: Thinking about you takes up all my time!

18. Life is a sum of moments.
Whatever anyone says,
when the chance comes to live a beautiful moment,
never let it go.

19. Please, stop trying to console me!
Just hold me tight.

20. : You love someone with such an awful face?
: Oh really! You didn't like them? No worries; I did.
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