Guys, I don’t know how to best describe it. But the problem is, sometimes I can’t find the motivation to lead a good life in Japan when I know that I will probably return to my home country in the future. (Maybe in 10 years). This relates to various important and trivial things. Even stuff like tidying up / improving my apartment. Many things seem not to have any lasting value. Even when I bought a new car, there was much less joy because I immediately thought, this is all just temporary anyway, and I’m not really building anything here. Another problem is friendships. I have somehow no motivation to invest time in friendships here if I know they possibly not will last long.
It may be that I will return to my home country, but this attitude doesn’t get me anywhere. I kinda start to develop a kind of “whatever / anyway” attitude. It’s just temporary here, why bother much on improving life?
When I lived in my home country, it was very different. I was motivated to build lasting things and take much better care of my stuff.
Have you had similar thoughts or experiences? How can one develop an attitude and not see everything as excessively temporary and less valuable?
by Aurorapilot5