Bad is good

The other day I got a message from someone from Twitter. She said that my tweets are nice because it’s always positive. These days we have a lot of articles or tweets saying Japanese people need to change or our behavior is not good or something like that. But mine is not like that. She can read them without bad feelings.

I was happy she said that, but actually I was one of those people. We usually don’t say what we think. We are care about what people think. Most of us can’t say no. I didn’t like them. I did like foreign culture more than ours because they seemed like they say or do everything they want.

However I changed my mind as living overseas. I realized that we don’t say what we want had a reason and actually it was the reason why I’ve been feeling comfortable in Japan. We don’t say a lot so we don’t get fights a lot. We are care about what people think and we can being polite. And these things make us calm and happy.

I told a man who are newyorker that your culture is good because you say what you want all the time and I really envy you, he said he didn’t think so because it sometimes killed people.

I told Australian that you seem like you don’t have any stress because you don’t hesitate saying what you want, and he said yes but he often got arguments.

Of course we Japanese have fights or arguments, but not so many. I think Japan is one of the most less-fights-country in the world.

The thing you think bad is actually good. It’s just way of thinking.

Now I love Japan so much and I’m also proud of being Japanese. Like I said, it’s all about your point of view. I want to see good aspects because I know it’s the key to live happily.