5th June – 水無月
Kotowaza – as you might have known from blogs before, is the sentence of knowledge and lessons from the past. Today’s blog is about positive proverbs that might help people, in order to overcome hard time of life.
雲の上はいつも晴れ
(Kumo no Ue wa Itsumo Hare)
English: Upper sky is always sunny
Meaning: even the weather is terrible, above the clouds is always sunny. Therefore, if something doesn’t go right, overcoming that will bring the bright future.
起きて働く果報者
(Okite Hataraku Kahoumono)
English: the person wakes up and work is lucky person
Meaning: good health is the most important. Spending normal day everyday is actually very precious thing and cannot do without good health condition.
果報は寝て待て
(Kahou wa Nete Mate)
English: if you want happiness, you should wait, even you can sleep while waiting
Meaning: lucks and happiness will come naturally therefore you should wait patiently.
一陽来復
(Ichiyou Raifuku)
English: when winter finishes, spring comes
Meaning: When bad lucks continue one after another, good luck will come after.
浮世は心次第
English: How you feel about world is depend on your heart
Meaning: if you think the world is terrible it’s terrible, if you think it’s fun it’s fun. It’s depend on how you take it.
Little Japan Dictionary 
起きて働く果報者 (Spending normal day every day is actually very precious thing).
I wish my mom sees my normal day Qualities like (waking up late, jobless ) every day as a precious thing.
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