Saturday, March 19, 2011

Stoicism-Japanese Style




My brother-in-law, Ramesh Gandhi, built a segway to this piece for me.
Ramesh Gandhi is a tremendous Photographer. He is tremendous many many other things too. 

He just posted a beautiful Photograph, on his blog, of coils of rope with a caption "In The Loop".  The text, to paraphrase, says we will all die but do not know when, where and how.

Most of us are afraid of death...........except, perhaps many Japanese.  They are taking the current Nuclear Meltdown with looming death and disaster in stride. I do not see them ruffled. But Western Media seem ruffled that Japanese are not. Media do not seem to grasp Japanese stoicism.

I heard one Japanese woman say, when interviewed, we are all going to die; sooner or later. So, why be ruffled. It is a fact of living.

We all can learn to accept the idea of death from Japanese; a Stoic society







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