I think we all do it to some extent. I know I did when I was at secondary school. I couldn't marry up the "me" I was expected to be at home, the "me" I had to become to survive through school, the "me" I had to be when I was working in each of the pubs I did and the "me" I was when I was with my "home friends".... I just couldn't cope and shut myself away with Puccini, Miss Saigon, Mozart and school books....
Do a little of something that makes you happy every day!
Fascinating documentary, I have been shutting myself away for the past several years only going out to work then not leaving the house or talking to anyone. I don't think it would be possible for anyone to shut themselves away entirely and for such long periods in our culture (at least i hope not) possibly because we don't have that family nucleus. I certainly don't think it is an exclusively Japanese phenomenon.
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