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Pulling in some old standing note ideas

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Utopias are hard to communicate about

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Beauty and pleasure are closely related to pain and suffering

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Part of why utopias are hard to represent in art is because so much of what we consider beauty and pleasure is about an expression of pain or suffering

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like songs that talk about difficult times or death or a challenging family situation

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Ganbatte

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Do your best!

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To me, this is about doing your best but without the burden of success or expectation

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Honest effort, but with love

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Enjoyed talking about this term with one of the Japanese students in my SDM cohort and his wife

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In your own usual way

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This is what the Apple Fitness meditation guides say when they say to get comfortable or wind down.. “get comfortable in your own usual way”

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I like it as an interesting Turn of phrase

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