Burdens vs. indifferences...

I have just returned from a one week business trip to Sweden. What stroke me very much arriving there is the look of the faces and expression in the Swedes appearances! Almost all and everyone looks so troubled and miserable. It is like everyone is carrying all the miseries and the entire world's troubles on their shoulders! That is a quite striking difference compared to what I see when I look around in the streets and in the trains in Tokyo, where most of the faces are quite blank and if any expression it is of calmness and satisfaction. Of course there is a lot of stress in people’s life also in Tokyo. What is reflected is yet another cultural difference and norm in Japan, to not show your inner feeling. It is even considered a bit immature and as a sign of lack of self control.