What I am about to write is some thing which I am not really sure. But I would like to believe it that way. Its about happiness, love, togetherness or what ever you call it but its about being each other. I live in Japan and obviously I never get tired of the astonishingly routine days!. I could see the same people walk past me and the same cars passing by at the exactly same time every day like in the movie "True man show". I think its so mechanical life.
Amid this clock perfect life, I happen to watch this small cafe by the road which I cross every day. I will not get more than a few seconds to get a glimpse into it while I cross this cafe. This cafe is never crowded with people. Its a very plain and simple laid out cafe with an open kitchen, usually lit in incandescent . Very few times I have seen a few people sitting and chatting over their coffee. Its owned (I guess so) by this mid aged wife & husband. A second or two that I get to watch them is good enough for me to think about them while I take my twenty mins walk to my apartment. Every time I see them they are there for each other. Sometimes both of them are seen sitting across their empty cafe chairs and chatting, some other time wife's giving husband a shoulder massage, sometimes leaning on the kitchen wall and having yet another fun chat. I miss them if I see their cafe closed when I come back from office. Just a few seconds of sight every day and I feel like- they are happy for eachother and with their life.
I am living away from my family in pursuit of my career and a 'better' life ofcourse for my family though. But for this so called tomorrows happy life I am sacrificing my today's happiness. Seeing this couple every day reminds me of my family and it would have been a very different life had I taken a different decision at that point of time. I don't know may be I would have been traveling a very different course of life and may be I would have been more happy but I really don't know. Ofcourse nobody knows.
The cafe couple are just wonderful and its very nice to see them together everyday. I admire them for being together for eachother everyday and living a simple life. For me they are like those fairy tale stories "happily lived ever after" kind. I hope I am not stalking them, but I am a secret admirer of them and their life :)....After-all living a happy life without much expectation from it is not as easy as it seems. I don't want to generalize that way of life as the best. Of course the world wouldn't have been like this if everybody start to live this "happy" life. But however we always have a choice of living that way.
Amid this clock perfect life, I happen to watch this small cafe by the road which I cross every day. I will not get more than a few seconds to get a glimpse into it while I cross this cafe. This cafe is never crowded with people. Its a very plain and simple laid out cafe with an open kitchen, usually lit in incandescent . Very few times I have seen a few people sitting and chatting over their coffee. Its owned (I guess so) by this mid aged wife & husband. A second or two that I get to watch them is good enough for me to think about them while I take my twenty mins walk to my apartment. Every time I see them they are there for each other. Sometimes both of them are seen sitting across their empty cafe chairs and chatting, some other time wife's giving husband a shoulder massage, sometimes leaning on the kitchen wall and having yet another fun chat. I miss them if I see their cafe closed when I come back from office. Just a few seconds of sight every day and I feel like- they are happy for eachother and with their life.
I am living away from my family in pursuit of my career and a 'better' life ofcourse for my family though. But for this so called tomorrows happy life I am sacrificing my today's happiness. Seeing this couple every day reminds me of my family and it would have been a very different life had I taken a different decision at that point of time. I don't know may be I would have been traveling a very different course of life and may be I would have been more happy but I really don't know. Ofcourse nobody knows.
The cafe couple are just wonderful and its very nice to see them together everyday. I admire them for being together for eachother everyday and living a simple life. For me they are like those fairy tale stories "happily lived ever after" kind. I hope I am not stalking them, but I am a secret admirer of them and their life :)....After-all living a happy life without much expectation from it is not as easy as it seems. I don't want to generalize that way of life as the best. Of course the world wouldn't have been like this if everybody start to live this "happy" life. But however we always have a choice of living that way.
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Its Mt Fuji from my apartment
This pic may not be relevant here but I felt like putting it up here:) |
