OhtaNotes

We cannot drink the sea. Yet we can drink from a cup that remembers.

One of Tokyo’s top three ramen shops. Yet, nobody knows whether people stop for the ramen or the tiger. Nobody knows whether there’s a ramen shop behind this door. Still, I open the door, believing it must be.

Most problems with life are solved by three strategies. Drink. Walk. Sleep.

We plan decades ahead. Still trip over the step we knew was there.

A big billboard advertising a popular book. Its title is “Get Breast Implants Instead of Buying a Birkin Bag.” This is Tokyo.

Never map out your whole life. Ask what to do with this morning.

We must all become five again. Rise. Play. Eat. Drink. Sleep. Repeat. We forget.

There are two skies. One is for when you’re dreaming. One is for when you’re sad. They’re always the same sky.

Maybe is not weakness. It is the language being honest with ourselves. Maybe.

Japan’s Defense Ministry communications mast. Tokyo’s third tower. The most unadorned. Yet the most burdened. The least known. Yet the most knowing.