WULOLIFE
"Work 2 days, rest 5 days, a guide to city life with little money and little work" Author: Ohara Hirata Publisher: Kyushu Publishing House
"Work 2 days, rest 5 days, a guide to city life with little money and little work" Author: Ohara Hirata Publisher: Kyushu Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★Young people, you must not live for your landlord and boss like this
★To save yourself, let yourself have some free time first
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Young people who have just graduated work more than 12 hours a day, and have to go to work on Saturdays and holidays. On Sundays, they stay at home and sleep. In return, they have to hand over more than half of their monthly income to the landlord. Such a hard life is promoted by the boss and people around as a normal process of gaining "freedom". Even if the "freedom" they talk about can be realized, it is actually not your turn to share a piece of it.
Without money, there is no freedom. Is there anything less free than this?
Apart from money, are there other ways to help us escape this predicament?
This book explores a way to seemingly live without making a lot of money.
If you can’t afford a house in the city center, it’s okay, you can rent one in the suburbs.
It’s okay if you can’t eat out in restaurants often, you can cook at home.
If you think haircuts are expensive and annoying, it doesn’t matter. Just cut your own hair. Not only will your hairstyle be stable, you won’t have to endure sales pitches to get cards or buy products.
When you work so much overtime that you want to quit, take a step back and find a lower-intensity job. After cutting off unnecessary desires and clearing away the glitz and temptations of the consumer society, your connection with the world, others, and yourself will become more real, more solid, and more vivid.
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My lifestyle is unacceptable to my parents’ generation, and some people scold me, saying that society will decline because of people like me, but I don’t care. I don’t think I have really given up on myself. I still do what I like and live a happy life.
——“One Line” interview with Ohara Bian
"Despair" is a rejection of mainstream values. Ohara is a young man who refuses to burn his life into this trend. But he has his own concerns and pursuits, and he is not "desperate"... Once the philosophy of life practiced by "Ohara Henri" becomes mainstream, the world should be better than it is now.
——Li Zhide, Editor-in-Chief of Initium Media
About the Author · · · · · ·
Author: Ohara Hira
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1985, currently living in seclusion in the suburbs of Taipei. After graduating from high school, I lived in seclusion for three years. I missed the time to apply for university admission because I was thinking about whether to continue to go to university or work. I once traveled abroad alone and worked briefly as a bookstore clerk, supermarket employee, and parts factory employee. After working 12 hours a day and having to work overtime on holidays, I suddenly realized that a life with salary but no quality was not what I wanted, so I resolutely became a monk... Oh no, it's a life of working two days and resting five days, enjoying the free time alone. I am currently in my eighth year of seclusion.
Translated by Lv Danyun
Graduated from the Japanese Department of Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, studied in Japan for two years. Currently a part-time translator. His translations include "Getting Close in Loneliness", "Just Want to Have a Good Marriage", "Allergies, Know First and Cure Them" and so on.
