Since “Labels” wasn't immediately clear and wasn't working well, I was looking for a better alternative term. Someone suggested the name “Categories,” so I changed it right away.
It feels much cleaner now.
One of the reasons I started this blog was to break down and share the importance of various things that exist in everything surrounding our lives and daily routines.
Truthfully, this is deeply connected to mental and physical health, areas where many people stumble.
This is also why I started categories like Great Hacking, Tokyo, The Rover, and the Sunday Edition relay.
This is about the world's ways and the rules of the city,
things I could only share with those I felt safe passing them on to,
and those connected by strange fate,
who turned out to be the same kind of person I'd been searching for but never found.
I too discovered by chance that this special wisdom,
which could only be taught through such circumstances,
is actually crucial for maintaining the mental and physical health of many people,
for handling the myriad tasks within life,
and for keeping the entirety of living bright, calm, and safe.
For instance, small talk.
I was taught that “talking about the weather is fine,”
but the first person I approached was someone I found troublesome, someone I felt compelled to respond to reluctantly. I was utterly dumbfounded, thinking, “How dare this person insult me, someone decades younger, like this?”
I was deeply annoyed, thinking I was merely quiet and not good at conversation—there was no reason to be insulted like that.
But when doctors in specialized medical fields also answered “Talk about the weather” for small talk,
I realized these people, in this conversational realm,
simply lack the language to explain further.
When you happen to cross paths (meaning you simply bump into each other by chance—not that you go out of your way to meet them),
after exchanging greetings,
it's the simplest way to tell your neighbors, “We're not exactly close, but rest assured, I am absolutely not your enemy (I won't harm you).”
It's a signal and a means to strengthen your ability to maintain your living environment—something you don't have to do when you can't, but doing it when you can makes a difference.
By sheer coincidence, I was fortunate to live for nearly 20 years in an environment inhabited by people who were highly mature, kept their living spaces clean and open, possessed intelligence and design sensibility, maintained a basic stance of indifference to respect each other, and could pass each other appropriately and skillfully.
Based on these findings and conclusions, I intend to write numerous pieces that the intelligence of those who continue to assist me deems suitable for incorporating into my own style.
The newly added “1Cabin” category primarily covers topics related to daily life—matters that are crucial for those who need them yet remain entirely unspoken.
While a room is called a “Room” in English, it can also be called a “Cabin.”
The cabin style of room refers to a small, simple lodging facility offering a space with established personal privacy.
I've loved business hotels for decades, enjoying trips where I simply wander around sightseeing, return to my room, buy local supermarket deli food and the wine or beer most commonly purchased by actual residents there, enjoy it in my room, sleep, and then the next day, simply walk around that obscure place again, wondering why I'd go out of my way there?
and then walking through obscure spots before returning to my own small room far away.
The word “cabin” feels like a small yacht.
Though I dislike seasickness, I love the ship-like interior. Sometimes, I wonder if my room glows with a very calm, pale golden light?
Holding a small bouquet, I gazed up from the sidewalk in the blue twilight of the city. It feels like the perfect fit for something I cherished deeply.
Professor O also said it was very good, and I'm hoping everyone else will like it too.
Our smallest unit of space is the “Cabin.”
First, what do we do in this “Cabin”?
What don't we need to do?
What should we appropriately take in from outside the door
to avoid stumbling awkwardly?
I want to discuss this clearly and concisely.
That concludes the introduction to the new category “1 Cabin”.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
