{"id":11201,"date":"2022-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=11201"},"modified":"2022-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"the-old-man-who-sits-at-the-bar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2022\/03\/25\/the-old-man-who-sits-at-the-bar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man Who Sits at the Bar: Issue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nigel Oakins muses on the word &#8216;ikigai&#8217; and other terms<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>[This story originally appeared in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flipsnack.com\/koktailmagazine\/koktail-magazine-issue-2-march-may-vcs6is8unf.html\">Koktail Magazine issue 2.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What&rsquo;s in a word? This magazine chose <em>ikigai<\/em> as its theme for this issue. <em>Iki<\/em> for life and <em>gai <\/em>for being, often translated as &ldquo;a sense of purpose in life&rdquo; or, if you prefer, a reason to get up and out of bed in the morning. A well-meaning soul (or more likely a self-help guru looking for the next big money-making thing) created a Venn diagram that purports to completely unravel the true meaning of this simple yet deep-meaning Japanese word. Quartering the word into four components: &ldquo;passion&rdquo;, &ldquo;vocation&rdquo;, &ldquo;profession&rdquo; and &ldquo;mission&rdquo;; and standing (apparently) for &ldquo;what you love&rdquo;, &ldquo;what you are good at&rdquo;, &ldquo;what you can be paid for&rdquo; and &ldquo;what the world needs&rdquo;.&nbsp; If you can complete this diagram you too can find your personal ikigai.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If only it were so simple.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Try and see where it gets you. For me, that would be flamenco music, backgammon, part-time writer and better meat-free steaks, which when Venn overlapped gives a reason to stay in bed rather than get up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If, like me, you are a native English speaker who has lived in Thailand for the better part of thirty years, then <em>ikigai<\/em> sounds like a sticky egg. But it does have a ring to it and it is a truly ingenious little word that is hard to replicate in other languages. The French word m&eacute;tier is almost there, but you have to be pretty good at something for it to be your calling. I love the Greek word <em>opa<\/em>&mdash;so simple but a celebration of something well done or satisfying. Can&rsquo;t you just feel yourself smashing that expensive plate on the floor and shouting opa in smug satisfaction? The Greeks also have <em>eudaimonia<\/em> or &ldquo;in good spirits&rdquo;, but somehow this does not roll off the tongue quite like <em>opa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Another favourite of mine is &ldquo;apricity&rdquo; which simply deserves to mean the warmth of the sun in winter. Add another Japanese word, <em>komorebi<\/em>, which delightfully reflects sunlight filtering through the leaves of a tree. Throw in &ldquo;deciduous&rdquo; which we are going to need later, and for good comparative measure, add <em>rakuyou<\/em>, a Japanese word for golden fallen or shedded leaves. Let&rsquo;s go French again with <em>retrouvailles <\/em>or &ldquo;the happiness of meeting again after a long time&rdquo;. Mix in<em> rimjihn<\/em>, Sanskrit for the pitter-patter of a light drizzle, and for good measure <em>petrichor<\/em>, Greek for the pleasant smell of the earth after a light rain. And why not<em> morii<\/em>, Norwegian for a desire to capture a fleeting moment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Who could argue that &ldquo;brontide&rdquo; should not signify the low rumble of distant thunder and that &ldquo;elysian&rdquo; should not mean divinely inspired? Are we not all <em>flaneurs<\/em> sauntering aimlessly about observing our surroundings? Or simply <em>cosagach<\/em>, Scottish Gaelic for a feeling of being sheltered and warm in front of a wood-burning stove. Not forgetting a little Norwegian with <em>utepils<\/em> or sitting outside enjoying a beer on a sunny day. Add a little Thai with <em>santisuk<\/em> for &ldquo;tranquillity&rdquo;, and to finish, <em>gigil,<\/em> Filipino for &ldquo;the overwhelming desire to squeeze something that is utterly adorable and irresistibly cute&rdquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What a grab bag of wonderful words. If you wonder how some may fit into a sentence or two then how about this: &ldquo;The apricity of the winter sun and the deciduous trees reflecting the <em>komorebi <\/em>gave a feeling of <em>cosagach<\/em> just perfect for an <em>utepils <\/em>and that<em> morii <\/em>moment. The brontide did not trouble us nor the pre-storm <em>rimjihn<\/em> as we sought <em>cosagach<\/em>. Were we not simply flaneurs enjoying retrouvailles as we shared a <em>gigil<\/em> as the <em>santisuk<\/em> overcame us? <em>Opa<\/em>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps not. But if you ever meet Stephen Fry, the actor and renowned British wit and intellectual, you could try this out on him, or indeed any pompous friend for that matter, and see if they flinch.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-808770f7-7fff-8b23-a715-83bf63efec50\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And finally back to <em>ikigai.<\/em> I have it on good authority from a Japanese scholar and a friend of mine that<em> ikigai <\/em>is not something you need to make money from, does not have to be something the world needs, is not something you need to be proficient at and is not something you even have to love. Now that&rsquo;s good news if your<em> ikigai<\/em> is anything like mine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Oakins muses on the word &#8216;ikigai&#8217; and other terms [This story originally appeared in&nbsp;Koktail Magazine issue 2.] &nbsp; What&rsquo;s in a word? This magazine chose ikigai as its theme for this issue. Iki for life and gai for being, often translated as &ldquo;a sense of purpose in life&rdquo; or, if you prefer, a reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Old Man Who Sits at the Bar: Issue 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigel Oakins muses on the word &#039;ikigai&#039; and other terms &nbsp; What&rsquo;s in a word? This magazine chose ikigai as its theme for this issue. 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