Quote of the Day!!

Today's quote is from my favourite song from Johnny's Entertainment's amazing group SMAP. 

The song is called "Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana". The loose translation is "The only flower in the world".

The first time I heard this song from SMAP I instantly fell in love with it. Regardless of the fact that I knew basically no Japanese when I heard this song for the first time. Now that I have an average understanding of Japanese, I love this song even more!!

I really love the meaning of the song. This song holds a really deep meaning about staying the way you are and not becoming like everyone else since we are all different and unique people.

Without further adieu... Here are the lyrics...

I looked at all kinds of flowers
Lined up in front of the flower shop
Each person prefers a different type
But they’re all beautiful
None of them fight
Over who’s the best
They just stand up tall and proud
In their buckets 

So how come we people
Want to compare ourselves like this?
Why do we want to be the best
When everybody’s different? 

Yes, each of us is
A flower there’s only one of in the whole world
Each of us has their own seeds
So let’s just do our best
To make them grow into flowers 

There are people whose smiles are strained
Because they’re completely lost
But it doesn't matter
Because every flower that’s worked so hard to grow is beautiful
Eventually someone came
Out of the flower shop
Carrying a bunch of flowers in all different colours
His face looked so happy 

I didn't know his name
But he gave me a smile
Like a flower that had bloomed
In a place nobody had noticed 

Yes, each of us is
A flower there’s only one of in the whole world
Each of us has their own seeds
So let’s just do our best
To make them grow into flowers 

Little flowers and big flowers
Not one is the same as another
You don’t need to be number one
You’re special, the only one of you, to begin with

So I hope you find the strength to stay the way you are and look at people the way they are and don't try to change them either.

Signing off...

A fangirl