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GACKT Blog - 2010.01.01 12:27
Happy New Year~~~!!!!!!!
FORDEAR
Happy New Year!!!
Finally it's the New Year!!!
Congrats, on the opening of 2010.
I started it off great. No, it was started great off for me.
31st was
Yoshida Hide-kun's match, I got to watch it up close.
I felt the the amount of strength and feelings involved during these battles.
He managed to deliver his determination of [Victory] to all of you, did he??
The meaning of all that age.
Strength doesn't mean being sharp only,
Sometimes the meaning is like wrapping your opponent with gentleness and kindness.
It's undeniable that just body strength alone can't compete with youth.
Nevertheless, the behaviour of a person on what did he live for up till now
and the feeling that he's unable to put all his strength into it to face his opponent.
How a person survives without losing to the enemy in front of him.
Like a Samurai.
No matter how much nice words he said or were said to him, in the end, victory or defeat definitely follows around in life.
There can't be situations for excuses.
You have to do it, life's like that.
I'll continue running from here,
I want all of you to outrun me.
For me too I want to live my life about victory and defeat.
Of course, I'm really serious about persisting,
On top of going through this, for example discovering what is the meaning of failure at that moment,
Right at the beginning, you'll say [Victory or defeat is not important]
You can't see the importance of it yet.
Let's all become dangerous men* in 2010.
[To assault and be assaulted you have to make a choice]**
My friend gave me these words of advice for the New Year.
That's a Samurai.
This year too yoroshiku.***
Be a real man.
GACKT
Note
* Yes, GACKT wrote 危険な漢 which literally translates to 'dangerous men'.
** Sorry, I'm a bit confused with this one. It might not be very accurate.
*** Yoroshiku means to 'please take care of '/ 'please treat me well' etc