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Jazz.

Jazz always manages to put me into a trance.
It’s effusive, disorganized, sensual and unpredictable.
It hypnotizes me and takes me to a new way of contemplation;
consciousness is enhanced, yet it doesn’t simulate the
effects of psychedelic drugs-
I am still, in fact, awake and aware.
It's subtly rebellious and provocative.

It’s been a while since I picked up playing jazz.
I haven’t stopped listening to Miles Davis for one single day though.
Jazz is like marijuana; it has calming effects and nothing gets much chiller than it.
It speaks not to the heart like rock music does but literally to the soul.
Rock is like beer, while jazz is like fine wine.
The perfect night imaginable would be watching Miles and Trane play
like they do in that youtube up there.
Man, it’d be fine like satin.

Jazz is sophisticated, but one don’t need to be sophisticated to enjoy it.
Once one feels it, he or she’s already there, in the music itself.

Jazz is Tokyo. Jazz was Shanghai. Jazz is New York.
It’s can warm you up like a fire in the wintertime or cool you down
until you are essentially relaxed.

Watch Miles play. That’s vintage.

ジャーズは　緩和ですよ。

back to the roots

for a while...

I said...

"I want to become a politician or a diplomat."

But the ideas of holding office, becoming an authority,
and loyalty to one country rather than to the human race
(an important ideal to me) eventually stopped me.

Then I said...

"I want to become a businessman or CEO of a mighty corporation."

What are the chances of becoming a CEO and making billions of
dollars? Very unlikely. I could possibly become impoverished.
And, even if I broke my back and worked hard everyday to
finally obtain that position and millions of dollars, do I
really desire wealth and the burden of managing surpluses of money?
No.

Then I finally returned to the roots.

"I want to become a professor of some sort."

1. After 7 hard years, the position of professor is stable.
2. The impact made upon energetic, passionate young adults.
3. Vacation. When school is not in session, I can continue
my lifelong love of travel.
4. Personal research. I can research into issues which I am
most passionate about and work hard to earn honors. (Many
Nobel Prize winners, especially in the science fields, are
professors).

For now, I couldn't see any future better for me.
Yet, whatever the tides of fate brings,
I'll go along with its flow.