Sakura – do you know, what’s the meaning of this word?
It’s the Japanese translation of cherry blossom and it’s as well a time of celebrations in spring. It’s when cherry trees are blooming all over Japan and a whole nation is singing, celebrating and enjoying life.
The cherry blossom is a symbol for beauty, dawn and impermanence. What seems pretty wise about the Sakura celebrations to me, is the attitude that’s connected with it: First waiting and looking forward to it, enjoying the Sakura when it’s present and finally letting it go and keeping all the good memories when it’s over again.
I feel like many people are living their lives differently and do not understand this attitude.
Let me give you an example: this year, we experienced a really rainy and cold start of the summer in Germany. We had weeks full of clouds and cold rain. Last weekend the bad weather period finally came to an end. The sun was shining and it was perfectly warm again. Nevertheless I still heard so many people discussing when it was going to rain again and how bad the summer would become this year.
Isn't it just as if one squanders times of prosperity on thoughts of their fading?
It’s the Japanese translation of cherry blossom and it’s as well a time of celebrations in spring. It’s when cherry trees are blooming all over Japan and a whole nation is singing, celebrating and enjoying life.
The cherry blossom is a symbol for beauty, dawn and impermanence. What seems pretty wise about the Sakura celebrations to me, is the attitude that’s connected with it: First waiting and looking forward to it, enjoying the Sakura when it’s present and finally letting it go and keeping all the good memories when it’s over again.I feel like many people are living their lives differently and do not understand this attitude.
Let me give you an example: this year, we experienced a really rainy and cold start of the summer in Germany. We had weeks full of clouds and cold rain. Last weekend the bad weather period finally came to an end. The sun was shining and it was perfectly warm again. Nevertheless I still heard so many people discussing when it was going to rain again and how bad the summer would become this year.
Isn't it just as if one squanders times of prosperity on thoughts of their fading?
Did it already happen to you?
On the next sunny summer day, let us be the ones lying in the grass, feeling the sun on our skin, enjoying the Sakura of the moment and reminding us of the Japanese cherry blossom mantra.
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