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Blue Drifting

The Japanese term “seishun” (youth) refers to the time and age for young and immature people to spend full of energy and vitality through study, exercise, meeting new people, parting, relationships, and other experiences amid a flood of new information in their lives. It mainly refers to the school years. The literal translation is “blue (green) spring,” with “blue (green)” often referring to youth and inexperience. Youth is the intertwining of the desire to want to take drastic action for oneself and the uncertainty of breaking away from the group to become independent. Conversations and actions at school end up becoming the premise for group consciousness when expressed in words. However, everyone tries to come together to try find a temporary sense of security for support. You can control yourself in the crowd, but you will be irritated with yourself for enduring it. You lower your head and try to find support on your cell phone. What about in a relationship with another person? Will you lose control over time, and will your true nature show itself and be understood? “I want to listen, and I want you to listen. I want to talk, and I want you to talk. I want to rely on you, and I want to be relied on. I want to be with you always, and I want to be alone.” In the mind, there is a state of survival where ideals and reality as well as sympathy and self-assertion conflict with each other. However, growth waits at the forefront of the blue drifting.

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