RE: How Much Longer ~ Haiku of Japan
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It reminds me of a passage I read in a novel, the character's world was slowly crumbling around her, and her only thought was, "I just need to keep moving. I just need to keep filling my time so that I don't need to face my reality right now, not to feel.
I felt this while reading Santoka's poem... I can imagine one's travels back then would be painful and perilous, yet he found ways to stay grounded. Even taking the moment to write the poem itself was a reflection of this attitude
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I think that was a large part of it. Stay in the moment; don't look at how terrible life is right now.