OhtaNotes

British Embassy Tokyo. Built c.1930. Office of Works UK. Neoclassical.

Some samurai would roar “Cast off wisdom” before battle. Samurai were the learned class. They knew knowledge could be the wall.

I asked the waiter why the table was blue. He said the shrimp requested an ocean view.

Humans invented the browser. It grew tabs. The number of tabs became the number of worries. Close them. Live the afternoon.

The mind that seeks the exit builds the maze.

The fastest way home from school was boring. The back road held all the adventure. We’re grown now. Nothing has changed.

Humans cannot live in grey. So we smuggle in color. One shade, then a flood.

The brain never stores memories in order but by emotion. Your life is only a highlight reel that refused to be forgotten.

Some cultures have no word for “later.” There, life has no future. Only now. Maybe that’s how it is.

If your life looks too straight, you’re just tracing someone else’s line. Every inch of it.