Whatever will be will be

Just another random photo. This is the Peace Dome which is , you guessed it, in the Peace Park in Hiroshima! Heaps of foreigners come to look at this building which is held up by a fanstastic amount of Selley's Allgaps and the occasional iron girder. They keep the building here to remind people of the past. But to be honest, it doesn't do much for me or for many Japanese people who weren't around during the war - an increasing number. It's not the kind of situation you can imagine very easily, and a random decrepit building doesn't help much, it's not obvious by looking at it what happened - you'd find buildings in a similar state of disrepair in any country of the world. I dunno that the problem these days is getting people to believe that nuclear weapons kill lots of people - it's getting them to believe that it is not the only option. It seems a lot of people think "yeah the bomb is bad, but what else are we gonna do?" and are quite happy at that. There's a Japanese phrase shouganai (しょうがない）that means "this is all there is" and they use it all the time when they are under pressure to do stuff. Like at my previous work when I was talking to a teacher about overtime and he was saying that it sucks and that no one wants to do it but because the boss still expects it... shougani - that's all you can do. Umm, no, you could just not do overtime! 50 workers leaving work on time aren't gonna be stopped by 1 boss. This is a cop out phrase and it is used way too much, not only in Japan but in Australia too. OK, so we don't say that particular phrase, but everytime we shrug our shoulders and say "that's life" we are doing the same thing - and we seem to do it more and more.