Ikigai
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Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for
being." It is similar to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone,
according to Japanese culture, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and
often lengthy search of self. Such a search is important to the cultural belief
that discovering one's ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life. [Examples
include work, hobbies and raising children.
The term ikigai compounds two
Japanese words: iki (wikt:生き) meaning "life; alive"
and kai (甲斐) "(an) effect; (a) result;
(a) fruit; (a) worth; (a) use; (a) benefit; (no, little) avail"
(sequentially voiced as gai) "a reason for living [being alive]; a meaning
for [to] life; what [something that] makes life worth living; a raison
d'etre".
In the culture of Okinawa, ikigai
is thought of as "a reason to get up in the morning"; that is, a
reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner suggested ikigai as one of
the reasons people in the area had such long lives.
The word ikigai is usually used
to indicate the source of value in one's life or the things that make one's
life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer to mental and spiritual
circumstances under which individuals feel that their lives are valuable. It's
not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the present state of
society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but they have a goal
in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviours that make us feel ikigai are not
actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous actions.
In the article named Ikigai —
jibun no kanosei, kaikasaseru katei ("Ikigai: the process of allowing the
self's possibilities to blossom") Kobayashi Tsukasa says that "people
can feel real ikigai only when, on the basis of personal maturity, the
satisfaction of various desires, love and happiness, encounters with others,
and a sense of the value of life, they proceed toward self-realization."
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