Life Never Ends

*Japanese ver

These days
I find myself having difficulty engaging in conversation with others

Probably
this is the result of gaining a better understanding of myself

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I was (and still am) very interested in listening to others’ stories

Because it helps me understand myself

We can’t understand ourselves without others

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Getting older
means
having more of one's own unique experiences & unique realisations

So that, one’s life becomes more individual, more one's own, more unique

And now,
probably my life has become unique to a certain degree

And thus,
my understanding of myself has reached a certain point

And hence,
I feel less need to deepen it by listening to others’ stories

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........That said, I still believe what I believed in my early 20s;

"Life is a process of getting to know oneself and, in order to do so, we need others"

and

“'Knowing oneself' is a life-long process. Never ends"