Hasegawa Taizou:
are you sure about that?
do you really want summer vacation to last forever?
if summer vacation were endless, what would you want to do? keep vacationing forever?
keep vacationing even as your classmates enter a new school term?
keep vacationing even as they all graduate, become independent, and start working?
keep vacationing even as your parents make sarcastic remarks about how your friend So-And-So got promoted or married?
"Really, I wanted to get a job too, and get married, and repay my parents for all they've done for me."
with such thoughts in your head,..
would you stay in your room, left alone with nobody to call family, and keep vacationing? of course you would.
you were the one who wished for an eternal summer vacation, so you'd have to keep on vacationing, with no vacations from your vacationing!
do you get it now?
Vacations can only exist after work obligations, the basis of the human lifestyle, are fulfilled! you can't call a year round vacation a vacation at all!
the same holds true for everything.
an endless vacation is the same as work.it turns into an obligation, a source of pain.
you can only enjoy a vacation because it'll end someday. you can only keep working because it'll end someday.
an endless summer vacation is no different from an eternal hell!
Thank your lucky stars!
be thankful that your life has both obligations and vacations, both ups and downs!
thankful that your summer vacation can still be called a summer vacation!
- Gintama 2015 Ep.17
