How do you say “Totonou” in English?
DMM answers that “invigorate” or “revitalize”. Anyways, I want to know your answer ;
What fills when you feel something is missing in you?
I found they were music and Mexico in my case.
One summer day（about 7 years ago?）, I suddenly decided to go on a trip to Jakarta without any particular purpose. Because some videos on Youtube fascinated me, there were Indonesian band White Shoes & The Couples Company’s music video, and in the video they were playing and walking around street in Jakarta. I liked the mood in the city which was busy and dirty, had crazy traffic jams and lazy people but something lively.
After arriving to Jakarta I saw a lot of street musician around there. When I was having lunch at stall, drinking coffee at square in the park, walking on a bridge, anywhere anytime music were there.
Then I felt something filled me. ー I got it, is this what it means “Totonou”…！
Totonou is also a slang used by Japanese young sauna freaks recently. I can’t explain Totonou in English well yet but I certainly experienced.
1, February 2023
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