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Hello everyone! This is Leila from Bite size Japanese.
How are you?
As those of you who watch on YouTube will know,
I usually sit on this sofa and record videos.
Today I sat under the sofa.
You're recording videos from a different direction than usual.
Today, I wanted to make a podcast, but
The camera I always use stopped charging and I couldn't use it.
I have no choice but to take a video with my smartphone.
Also, I'm sitting facing the window right now.
I wonder if the light from the window would make it look better? That's what I thought,
This is how I'm filming the episode today.
Yes. Well then, ummm
As for the topic of today's episode,
I'd like to talk about "hard work and rest."
``Baribari'' in ``Baribari Work'' is
onomatopoeia, but what does it mean?
I feel like I work a lot.
I feel like I work a lot. It means to work hard, be busy, and work hard.
"Working hard"
"Working hard" and
"Getting plenty of rest" are, well, opposites.
On the contrary,
I think this balance is very important for us.
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I'm sure many of you are busy working or studying
so I thought this theme would resonate with
people.
"To empathize" means "to" in "empathy"
to mean "together" or "together."
"Kan" is the "feeling" of "feeling"
"I understand! I understand that too!" is "empathy"
It means that you think and feel that way too.
I'm 27 years old now, but
I think I started using YouTube about five years ago.
At that time, I was still a graduate student.
Oh, I wasn't on YouTube, but on Instagram,
I was making Japanese videos with an account called Bite size Japanese, and
I was working really hard, and
that was the beginning of my full-time working experience.
Five years ago, in 2020,
there was a time when I was creating and thinking about Japanese content for a long time, like 10 hours a day.
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Then, about two years later,
I started this podcast,
while also working part-time or as a freelancer,
last year or so, I started working full-time at a hotel,
and now my main job is
this podcast and the work at that hotel.
So, I've been working for about five years now, but
within those five years,
there were times when I worked all night and on weekends,
and times when I didn't,
when I finished work around 5 o'clock, I was already cooking dinner,
when I took it easy, and never worked on weekends
It was in order.
Well, about a year or a year and a half,
there were busy periods and
periods that weren't so busy.
But, after all, when you have goals, projects,
tests, things like that,
you inevitably get busy.
I think it's the same for everyone.
Also, there was some trouble at work.
When it comes to that kind of thing,
it seems like you've been really busy for the next few days.
I think there are times like that.
Well, I'm actually quite busy right now,
with work, my hotel job, my podcast,
and I'm planning to move to Australia next year, so
I'm currently applying for a spousal visa.
There are so many materials to prepare for that.
It was a lot of work, and it took a lot of time,
I'm almost done, but
Yes, and I was very busy,
I was preparing every day until 8:00 or 8:30 p.m.
After work, I prepare for such visas, so
I have been quite busy for several months.
Actually, when I was a university student, more than five years ago,
before I started working, I always thought
that I didn't want to work. Honesty.
When I was in middle school, I thought, ``I want to be a housewife.''
A ``housewife'' is someone who does housewifery full-time.
Being a full-time housewife means being a housewife.
So, as a housewife, I did all the housework and things like that.
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There was a time when I thought, ``I never want to work.''
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However, after working for the past five years,
I realized that in order to achieve my goals,
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I have to work really hard,
I have to concentrate on studying and working
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When I started Bite size Japanese on Instagram,
at first I was doing it for about 10 hours every day, and
the number of followers increased from 0 to 150,000 in one year,
well, that's just because I had a lot of followers,
I wasn't making any money at all, and
it was more stressful, but
Well,
I realized that the reason I gained so many followers was because I worked really hard.
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I didn't learn it from a textbook, but
I learned it by trying it myself.
After all, when you have a goal that you think would be fun
and you're working hard toward that goal,
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it's fun and
you feel very fulfilled.
“Fulfilling” means being satisfied.
I'm kind of satisfied.
There's a feeling of being satisfied every day and saying, ``I'm glad I did this.''
That kind of reassuring feeling.
I feel fulfilled, and
I guess my life will continue to be like this:
There will be periods when I work hard and
periods when I don't work hard. Also, go to the next goal.
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Is that what life is like?
That's what I want to do these days.
I've been feeling that way lately.
But working hard
is fun because you choose it
yourself, but
when you can't make your own choices,
the company forces you to work.
When you're working for the company, not for yourself,
I think there are many times when
you feel tired and uncomfortable.
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I always think that
every company has a very good purpose.
There is such a thing as "to help people in need," right?
For example, in the case of a karaoke business,
the goal is to provide a place where people who want to sing can sing.
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By wrapping the food,
you can keep it very clean, right?
it prevents the food from getting dirty, and
it also keeps it clean, which reduces the chance of getting sick.
But
it's bad for the environment, and there are good and bad aspects,
and when you look at the marketing of such companies,
they keep talking about the good and saying, ``We're so great.''
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I get quite tired sometimes,
and that's probably why,
I probably didn't want to start working full-time
at a company right after graduating from university.
Therefore,
there are definitely good and bad sides to working.
Now, by working,
by living a normal life,
we are all collectively polluting this natural environment,
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but by working,
we can support our families, and
For example, if someone in your family is sick and can't work,
by working, you can
support that person, which is really difficult.
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After thinking about all these things,
after I graduated from university,
I didn't really understand the meaning of working, but
really for the past year or so,
lately, I've started to think that I want to work hard and earn more money
to support my family.
Right now, my mother has passed away and I'm not home.
My father has been suffering from mental illness for a long time, so
he can't work.
So now I want to support my father.
My father is getting older and older, but
it feels like
he wants to live in the house next door to where I live, and
I want to take care of him forever.
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That's why I really want to work to support my family,
to support my loved ones,
and that's probably my biggest goal right now.
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Also, regarding the
issue of "working hard" and "resting,"
I think it's common for all of you,
when you're working hard, to feel like
that taking a break is a bad thing.
Yes, there is.
I work really hard every day.
I study, but
I watched TikTok for about 30 minutes, or
I had about 30 minutes to do nothing.
I was like, oh, I feel like this time.
I could have done something, but I didn't do anything....
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I'm sure you've all had those moments where you feel disappointed or
disappointed.
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I've struggled with that kind of feeling quite a bit.
I've felt that way quite a lot in the past,
and
I still feel that way.
However, I have recently been thinking that
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this way of thinking is actually very dangerous and bad.
Maybe you all see other people taking a day off and
don't say anything bad about it.
Maybe when I take a break and
can't do something, I feel
bad, but
Well, that's ``productivity.''
``Creating something'' ``very efficient'' = ``value''
``Value'' is important.
It's good to make something and be efficient.
It's important.
That's not true.
If we don't produce something, it's inefficient because
it's unimportant and has no value.
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That can't be helped,
because in today's society,
everything works like that.
Making money and receiving money means
if you are more productive and efficient,
you can earn more money.
Therefore, it is true that in today's social system,
high productivity and efficiency are "values."
It's important, isn't it?
Well,
I think it's really dangerous if you take time off and start thinking that it's ``inefficient'' or ``not productive''
= ``no value.''
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For example, my mother has been ill for about 10 years,
and has been unable to work,
and has been in the hospital all the time,
which costs a lot of money.
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My father has also been mentally ill for a long time,
and he was busy taking care of my mother, so
he hasn't been able to work for about 20 years.
So, is my father a worthless person?
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For example,
I think there are quite a lot of people who think that whether my father works hard or not,
his value is determined by whether he works or not. When you don't know the reason, when there's no reason why you can't do your best
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But there are so many people who can't do their best.
Therefore, if you think that "high productivity" is important,
then,
then, what happens to the value of those people who cannot work hard,
those who are not productive,
are they different from yourself?
I also don't know when I will get sick and be unable to work, and
I won't be able to work anymore when I get old.
That's why when I take a break, I feel really bad.
I feel like I didn't do anything....
I feel bad because I'm not efficient or productive.
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This way of thinking is already commonplace in today's society, and
I think everyone has it, but
I think it's a way of thinking that you only turn to yourself
when you're resting. I feel like I should be more careful.
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I've been thinking a lot lately.
Perhaps it is impossible to get rid of this way of thinking
in today's society,
because in today's society, ``productivity is value''
Well, when you start looking at yourself and others
with that ``productivity is value''
way of thinking,
you realize that human value is
Lately, I've been thinking that
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it's good to remember that it's not about being highly productive or efficient,
and I've started paying a lot more attention to that.
Yes. That's why I really hope that the society of the future
will not look down on people like my mother and father who are
unproductive or
say bad things about them, but
it will be okay for such people to exist
as well.
I thought it would be a good idea for everyone to grow vegetables.
You can do it in your room, or in the kitchen.
If you have a balcony or a balcony,
try growing vegetables there.
Growing vegetables is really difficult for me.
It always doesn't go well.
Things don't go as planned,
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I've been thinking that maybe it's good to try something that's not efficient,
and things like going camping,
painting pictures, playing music, etc.
Lately, I've been thinking that if you try something that has no productivity at all,
and doesn't make money,
you might be able to step away from the social system a little bit and
have a chance to think a little bit more.
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Even though I'm talking about this, I'm not good at it at all, and
I feel like I have to be more careful now.
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I've been thinking about this lately.
Alright guys, that's how I want to end today's episode
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Thank you very much for listening to the end.
Thank you for your hard work!
I think all of you are probably working really hard.
The fact that they have become so good at Japanese means that they
really try hard, work hard, and
study hard.
So don't work too much,
value your rest
value your inefficiency
enjoy life lol
I want to have fun too.
Well, that's all for today.
Thank you everyone for your hard work!