phychology

Hi Everyone
How are you?

Recently I read a book called "courage to be disliked".
It's written by an author who is fascinated by Alfred Adler,  psychologist.
Adler is known for the study about individual psychology. He is one of the big three psychologist, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and him.

The author was interested in Adler and did some research on him.
Finally he found a professor who also research on Adler for a long time.
They made this book together. It's a dialog style assuming this professor and this author talking. It remains me Plato.

This is a book about having courage to be disliked.
I can't explain exactly what was written in the book since the contents are difficult to understand for the first time, but I learned a lot from the book.

One of the most interesting parts was about separation between my problems and other's. For example it's not my problem even if another person doesn't have a bad opinion of mine and doesn't seem nice to me. It's his problem so that I don't have to be distressed about it. I can be me anywhere. We can't be free if we think we want to be liked by everybody.
This theory is one of the reason why the author and the professor named the book's title "courage to be disliked".

I'm not sure I wrote correctly about the book, but I hope you would understand what I tried to tell.

Thank you for reading.

HACHI

hi everyone

how are you doing?

It's March now but still chilly.

Last night I watched a movie called HACHI with my mom. 

It's a story about a dog which is really faithfull to his owner. He was found on a street one cold day and became a family of a professor acted by Richerd Geer.

When the professor goes to work HACHI always follows him and see him off at the station and around the time he comes back from work HACHI always waits for this owner because HACHI loves him so much. It's really attaching to watch the process human and animals build relationships.

 Good days didn't go on.

One day the professor goes to work HACHI was trying to tell something. HACHI doesn't want him to go so brought a ball to him which HACHI has never fetch with anybody. The professor thought something weird about HACHI  but he had to go work. On that day during his lesson at the college he suddnly fell down on the floor because of heart attack and he died. As usuall HACHI was waiting for him at the station but the professor didn't show up. HACHI was waiting day after day. It doesn't matter if it's a rainy day or a windy day even snowy day. He waited for him for nine years until he died.

This story is real and happened in Japan in 1923.

I have a dog who is really alike HACHI. Her name is SAKURA which means cherry bloosam.

She is one of my family and will be forever. 

 Thank you for reading.

Be unapologetic

Hi how you doing. Tonight I want to share a TED video with you. 

I like to watch TED in my free time. It can help my English listening skills and vocabulary. 

I was looking for something interesting and I found this. 

 Check out this amazing TED Talk:

Ash Beckham: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open 

Sent from TED app for iOS

http://itunes.com/apps/tedconferences/ted

Once he was a she and he talked about how difficult it was to tell the world who he really is.  

In the last of his talk he said three principles to open your heart. 

I want you to check them out in the video if you are interested. 

The third principle was " Be unapologetic " 

He said 

" you are speaking your truth. Never apologize for that. ~ Never apologize who you are.

 Some folks are maybe disappointed  but that is on them, not on you.

 Those are their expectations of who you are not yours. 

 That is thier story not yours. ~"

This impressed me.  

I sometimes feel unconfident in myself. 

I will remember what he said when I feel like that.

Sorry I didn't quote whole of his talk. 

Thank you for reading.

Living abroad

Hi how are you doing?

Today I was thinking about living in another country. 

Recently I'm into astronomy. I subscribe a magazine called Newton. I also learning terminologies about astronomy in English. 

I watched a tv program about NZ. There're breathtaking beautiful stars and we can observe the southern cross. If I could choose a country I would choose NZ now. I don't know one year later or further future. But I definitely go and live there now. Which country would you like to live?

English grammar

Hello
Today I have a question about English grammar.
What are the differences among these sentences?

1 There is not a car in the parking lot.
2 There is no car in the parking lot.
3 There are not  any cars in the parking lot.

I`m appreciate if you would correct my English and teach me the differences.
Thank you.

stars

Hello

Long time no see. How are you doing?

I'm doing great:)

Last night I was observing the stars on my yard.

I brought some blankets, hot cocoa and my doggy.

I lay down on a mat and watched so many beautiful stars in the sky.

Today I bought some books about stars and Greek mythology.

I can't wait to read them.

Here is a list of constellation's name in Japanese, Greek and English.

Have fun☆

牡羊座　　　　　Aries    　　　　　  the Ram

牡牛座　　　　　Taurus    　　　　　the Bull

双子座　　　　　Gemini　　　　　　 the Twins

蟹座　　　　　　Cancer　　　　　　the Crab

獅子座　　　　　Leo　　　　　　　   the Lion

乙女座　　　　　Virgo　　　　　　　the Maiden

天秤座　　　　　Libra　　　　　　　 the Scale

蠍座　　　　　　Scorpius 　　　　　 the Scorpion

射手座　　　　　Sagittarius　　　　   the Archer

山羊座　　　　　Capricorn　　　　　  the Goat-Horned

水瓶座　　　　　Aquarius　　　　　　 the Water-bearer

魚座 　　　　　　Pisces　　　　　　    the Fish

a large vocabulary

Hi everyone.
I'm about to go to bed. It's 10 to 2 a.m. in Japan. It's late.
To master English I have to have a large vocabulary.
As talking with my boyfriend I decided to strength my vocabulary with English app called Power Words8000.
I'll work on  harder.

Thank you for reading always.

I'm gonna sleep with my cat named UME.

Good night.