Deep Thoughts
06/16/2006 @ 9:00 am
The student government at my junior high school had been putting little postcards with inspirational aphorisms all over the school. Most are broken record variations of “Believe in thyself,” “Reach for the stars,” or something equally hackneyed. Though here’s a thought-provoking one:
jibun ga tatteiru basho o fukaku hore
soko kara kitto izumi ga dettekuru.
Which roughly translates as:
“If you dig deep at the spot you stand on,
from there a spring will surely emerge.”
Indeed.
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Lovely way to practice my hetakuso Japanese!
June 16th, 2006 at 2:38 pm