yurayurateikokuさんの おぼえた日記 - 2024年2月3日(土)

Should you express your real feelings?

I don’t always express my real feelings.
In Japan, there are the ideas of Hone and Tatemae.
Your private opinion and what you share with other people.

Nice. Nice. Oh! I’m hit.
I’m hit, too!
How about one more game?
Sounds good.
Hey! Look! Some girls from our class just came in.
Where?
Don’t look.
Why not?
Saki’s there.
You really like her, huh?
No. I don’t know.
She’s cute.
Yeah. She’s cute. She’s smart. And she doesn’t know I exist.
I’ve seen you taking with her.
Okay. She knows I exist, but she doesn’t care.
You know what you should do. You should tell her you like her.
No, no, no!
Oh, yeah!
It’s too risky. I don’t want to blow it. I’m playing it cool.
Well, how do you know she doesn’t like you?
Maybe she is playing it cool, too. Take a chance, man. If you don’t do anything, nothing will happen.
What if it goes wrong? It would be a disaster.
Why?
She wouldn’t talk with me anymore. Game over.
Trust me, blow. No pain, no gain.

No pain, no gain: If you don’t try hard, then you won’t gain anything.
The word gain means to get something or achieve something.
If you want something good, you need to work hard and feel a little pain.