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Last month while I was in Kyoto, I was asked in front of a crowd of people if 'I was happy?' and then for less than a second my mind would revert to its usual rhetorics - Am I happy? Then I got so confused for a moment, because all these things clash and the happiness and unhappiness refuse to lay out in front of me so I didn't know what to say but what the hell, these people don't understand English anyway, so I said
"Yeah," even with hand gestures in the air and those sort of stuff to accentuate my eagerness, I suppose.
I hate how a simple question like that would defer the entire meaning of it. Essentially, it would be a simple yes/no answer but when you try to get technical, you begin to think of consequence and reasoning and logic. And that's what I did, trying to bargain with simple logic like that. It's a shock because I realized I couldn't answer such a simple question.
Are you happy?
"Yeah," even with hand gestures in the air and those sort of stuff to accentuate my eagerness, I suppose.
I hate how a simple question like that would defer the entire meaning of it. Essentially, it would be a simple yes/no answer but when you try to get technical, you begin to think of consequence and reasoning and logic. And that's what I did, trying to bargain with simple logic like that. It's a shock because I realized I couldn't answer such a simple question.
Are you happy?
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