気が読めないなあ。でも、気が読めないの人は誰？私？あなた？二人？
Don't think too deeply about the things you don't understand. If your thoughts are overly complicated about such things, you will throw the people who you consult or share your worries with off balance, too. Your feelings of gloom and doom will inadvertently be transferred to others. So take care and have a little forethought.
"Don't think too deeply about the things you don't understand." Is that really ok in a country whose culture is so different from mine? There's a line between not thinking, thinking too simply and thinking too much. Is ignorance really bliss? And is critical thinking for personal growth also considered 'over thinking'?
Are you the sort of person to shrug your shoulders and walk the other way given a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in your path?
Am I the sort to stubbornly try and find a means to reach the other side despite the seeming impossibility?
Why swim against the current when you can (preserve harmony like a true Japanese person and) just go with the flow? Perhaps I was a salmon in my past life?
Why make a big deal of something trivial? Is something that's capable of causing me to worry to the extent of bothering others (or maybe just you) really so trivial? Maybe my blithe reply to your concern really made it seem so. It's rather ironic given your drift is "you shouldn't worry others so", and my reply was an attempt at exactly that.
If I had instead told you the true dilemma - that the culmination of all my worries this winter surmounted to feelings of being an unnecessary existence - how would you have replied I wonder? Would you have had a solution? Would you have suggested that I write everything down to find and eliminate the cause? - that requires deep thinking you know (ie, thinking too much).
Sometimes, all a troubled person needs is a sympathetic ear. Perhaps you're simply not the person to go to to offload my worries? In that case, I wonder why it is that you're the one I tend to go to despite instinct insisting that I'm possibly being a bother? If I believed in karma, you must have owed me a few things from your past life. Interesting.
So how should I reply to your piece of advice? Knowing your style, a plain, simple, straightforward and to the point answer is best. So what do I do when I don't have a plain, straightforward answer? (And then there's our language barrier and the fact that I can't fully read your mood since you're the sort to not use a single emoticon to convey what you're really thinking).
Lol. You're probably right when you imply that I think too much.
I'm so tempted to just send this to you as is. But that will not go down well, when things already seem to be tenuous.
But then again, perhaps if I read this note a few days later, I would come to agree with your advice given I'm perhaps the defensive sort to not take criticism well at first? Perhaps we'll see after a few days.
Someone else, come and give me some good advice?
"Don't think too deeply about the things you don't understand." Is that really ok in a country whose culture is so different from mine? There's a line between not thinking, thinking too simply and thinking too much. Is ignorance really bliss? And is critical thinking for personal growth also considered 'over thinking'?
Are you the sort of person to shrug your shoulders and walk the other way given a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in your path?
Am I the sort to stubbornly try and find a means to reach the other side despite the seeming impossibility?
Why swim against the current when you can (preserve harmony like a true Japanese person and) just go with the flow? Perhaps I was a salmon in my past life?
Why make a big deal of something trivial? Is something that's capable of causing me to worry to the extent of bothering others (or maybe just you) really so trivial? Maybe my blithe reply to your concern really made it seem so. It's rather ironic given your drift is "you shouldn't worry others so", and my reply was an attempt at exactly that.
If I had instead told you the true dilemma - that the culmination of all my worries this winter surmounted to feelings of being an unnecessary existence - how would you have replied I wonder? Would you have had a solution? Would you have suggested that I write everything down to find and eliminate the cause? - that requires deep thinking you know (ie, thinking too much).
Sometimes, all a troubled person needs is a sympathetic ear. Perhaps you're simply not the person to go to to offload my worries? In that case, I wonder why it is that you're the one I tend to go to despite instinct insisting that I'm possibly being a bother? If I believed in karma, you must have owed me a few things from your past life. Interesting.
So how should I reply to your piece of advice? Knowing your style, a plain, simple, straightforward and to the point answer is best. So what do I do when I don't have a plain, straightforward answer? (And then there's our language barrier and the fact that I can't fully read your mood since you're the sort to not use a single emoticon to convey what you're really thinking).
Lol. You're probably right when you imply that I think too much.
I'm so tempted to just send this to you as is. But that will not go down well, when things already seem to be tenuous.
But then again, perhaps if I read this note a few days later, I would come to agree with your advice given I'm perhaps the defensive sort to not take criticism well at first? Perhaps we'll see after a few days.
Someone else, come and give me some good advice?