GACKT OFFICIAL WEIBO – AUG 02 2017

GACKT Official Weibo update. Translation below:

Even though I opened my eyes at a very early timing,
the blinding light shone through the window.

Because I woke up much earlier than the appointed time, I went out for a drive in the street.

It has been alternating between cloudy and raining days since I have came to London,
it’s the first time on this last day,
that I saw a beautiful clear sky.

To be able to see such a beautiful sky in London…I thought
that I could be moved by such small things.

Maybe because it’s still early
the street was almost empty,
making it an ideal environment for driving.

While I was wandering on the streets,
I couldn’t help but looked twice at the name of the bar that suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.

[COCK AND LION]

“What kind of name is this??
It’s too embarrassing to translate it…”

They even have things like this in London, is it to show their style?
Is that a dirty joke or are they trying to be funny? I couldn’t understand
I think they have quite a few bars with such punchy names.

Anyway, it’s an interesting name for the day time.
I’ll go visit next time I come to England.

Even so, the streets were as beautiful as a painting.

Of course,
not all of London’s streets are like this.

This scenery is part of the area that was protected by law,
and for those that have been modernised,
honestly, I don’t even know if it’s London or not.

It’s not the matter of what’s good or not,
no matter which country, their modernised streets,
they all looked the same.
Nobody come to London to see this.

There’s scenery no matter where it is.
In Japan in America in any other Asian countries,
the streets that have been modernised for easy living
there’s not much of a characteristic and they all look almost the same.

That’s why
things that make you feel the history,
things that have a history,
the countries in Europe definitely have to manage them.

For the appearance of the buildings, not allowed to damage the block etc
if the exterior of the block was damaged when rebuilding the building,
this building will not be able to be rebuilt.

Of course,
construction is very time consuming and very troublesome.
And it’s will cost a lot more money.

However,
this is because there are things that need to be protected.
So going to Paris, London and Rome now
many European cities have legal requirements,
until now the history of ancient times were still retained.

Thinking normally
with regards to driving,
the stone roads are hard to drive and often slippery,
Asphalt road is the best when you think about driving comfortably and easy to drive.
When it snow, stone roads and blocks can’t be driven on.

Even so, these area are still now using asphalt roads.
In order to protect the history, sometimes it is necessary to eliminate what’s convenient and stay wasteful and inefficient.
I think this is right.

To the society today, that only pursues what’s convenient,
to tell the truth, it’s like a booger that has to charm at all.
As an example, this is how it feels.

Taking things time and time again is too troublesome!
If only considering the functionality, it’s more convenient to be smaller! So rhetoric
to build your home in a 4㎡
To put in everything you want within your reach and remove the kitchen and everything.
Because there’s a convenience store in front of your house
whenever you want to eat or drink anything
you don’t have to specially change your clothes when you go out.
The joy of this thing, replace the word with convenient,

“I want a house with this kind of function!!!”

and cuts all waste and lives efficiently
it seems like you can feel happiness.

I think that for humans, it is very important for us to figure out how to live meaningfully
in an inefficient environment with wasted time, and how to elegantly use that time.

At work, we indeed tend to pursue efficiency but
if we pursue only【efficiency】,
then a future where human-to-human communication is eliminated awaits.
If we end up considering that wasteful, it would be an extreme case of getting our priorities wrong.
It is good, precisely because it is【unnecessary】.
If you can change the【unnecessary】into【refinement】, beauty will exist in your heart.

The scenery from my window is beautiful.
While thinking about these, I got into the plane,
and in the blink of an eye, I arrived in Germany.

Another long day has begun.
What kind of happenings await me?