# 2
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![Forbidden fruit](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_4572-2.jpg "金以外、「自由」を創る要素")

## Elements that create "freedom" other than money

Some people say you can buy freedom with money. Some people enjoy making money. I think that's fine. But the idea that you can't be free without money feels strange.

What are you going to do with money?

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![Img 4470](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/img_4470.jpg "泣く女になるな(娘へ)と伝える泣き虫親父")

## Don't become a crying woman (to my daughter)

There are good tears and bad tears.

When my daughter cries because she's trying her best to communicate with her limited vocabulary, or when she cries because she's in pain, I tell her, "Absolutely do not cry!"

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![Img 4375 768x1024](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/img_4375-768x1024.jpg "Cadi 7, rialzati 8・七転八起")

## Cadi 7, get up 8・Fall down seven times, get up eight

My first hospitalization. Emergency admission. It happened the day before Golden Week was about to begin... Some kind of bacteria invaded my neck, lymph nodes, tonsils, and sinuses, and rapidly became infected. I couldn't eat or drink. Excruciating pain. An accident-like experience.

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![282418 244296228927536 4075427 N 1](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/282418_244296228927536_4075427_n-1.jpg "無視力ノススメ")

## Recommendation for the power of ignoring

The photo is of the NYC subway I visited in 2011. What I learned here was the attitude of 'not minding my own business'. People suddenly start playing the trumpet in the car, people start rapping, not only are there a variety of visuals to choose from, but the types of sounds are also diverse.

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![Tweaker](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img_3913-1-1024x891.jpg "隣のヤクチュウ君（ロングビーチ）")

## The meth addict next door (Long Beach)

Tweaker, this is what a methamphetamine addict is called in English.

I used to live in Long Beach, California.

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![Img 3525 2](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/img_3525-2.jpg "近未来")

## Near Future

The near future I often dream of. Looking at this reminds me. I keep looking back at that time. It was evening, the wind stopped, the sea surface became beautiful, and I went surfing. That was San Diego. Looking at the Pacific Ocean alone, I wonder how those people are doing.

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![EYES](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/img_3442-1.jpg "掘り方の変化")

## Changes in digging

Before I knew it, I was digging.   
Discovery Game.   
But lately, I think my way of digging has changed.

As long as we live on Earth, physically, wherever you dig, the end of the tunnel is just another tunnel. So, I used to think that way, with physical objectivity. I used to dig with an endpoint in mind.

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![Img 3403 1](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_3403-1.jpg "HawaiiのShakaのお話")

## The story of Hawaii's Shaka

Shaka ＼m／ You all know this gesture, a Hawaiian greeting that conveys meanings like Thanks, Hang loose, Take it easy, etc.

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![Img 3180 768x1024](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_3180-768x1024.jpg "俺のかつての140yen")

## My former 140 yen

At 27, I quit my job with almost zero savings and decided to move to the US! I started working part-time in 1997. In the end, I saved over 3 million yen in less than a year working the night shift at Sagawa Express...

Around 1998, the yen suddenly plunged to 140 yen.

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![Img 3158](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_3158.jpg "安全、危険、の確率")

## Probability of safety and danger

Japan is safe, isn't it?

Japan just has a low probability of danger, but danger still exists. The world has recognized Japan's safety, such as things not being stolen, lost items being found, and women walking alone at night. I think that's a good thing. However, just because safety is high doesn't mean there is possibility of danger befalling you.

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![Img 2820](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_2820.jpg "平和祈願シテモ戦争オコル")

## Even If We Pray for Peace, War Happens

What I feel this year is the confirmation that even if you pray for peace, wars still happen. Thinking that this gives solace to those who died in war, besides praying, we really need to update our very "way of thinking about things."

It's politicians who start wars, not citizens.

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![Img 2715 2](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_2715-2.jpg "分かり切る？、そんな事ありゃしない")

## Understand completely? That's impossible.

I like concepts like paradoxes and contradictions. For example, a sign that says "Distracted Driving Danger!" which you can only see if you are distracted driving, makes me smirk.

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