A Single Professional Teaches You! The “Ultimate Home Hot Spring” Method for a Single Person!
In “I’m a Single Professional When I Realize It,” Sensei introduces in detail in a comic strip how to enjoy the feeling of a hot spring at home as a single person.
The most important points are “to make it as close as possible to a real hot spring” and “to fool yourself!”
The most important points are “to make it as close to a real onsen as possible” and “to deceive yourself!”
To trick your sense of hearing, use a smart speaker to play sounds you might hear in an open-air bath.
Darken the area around the bath to create the atmosphere of a hot spring.
Going so far as to thoroughly make your home bathroom feel like a hot spring is in itself a refreshing change of pace! And it seems that the key to enjoying the extraordinary feeling is to stimulate the five senses and trick the brain (and make an effort to immerse yourself). What used to be just a routine bathing experience has now become a pleasure and a stress reliever.
In addition to the home spa, the doctor also shared with us other ways to relieve stress and frustration caused by living at home.
I wrote in the book, “I also had a lot of fun satisfying my cravings by camping at home by myself and playing cheap Japanese-style bar by myself. In the cheap bar game, I made junk snacks that I don’t usually make at home, such as fried mentaichi cheese wontons, fried chikuwa isobe, and cheese imo-mochi, and I arranged daikon salad in a way that made it look like an izakaya.”
At the home camp, we made a tent with things we had at home, put a cassette stove on the floor, and ate ramen noodles with sausage from a pot.
I recommend making and eating foods that you don’t usually eat at home and arranging them in a way that makes them look like they are from home, because it is an easy way to feel something out of the ordinary.
Sensei has always tried to make her home a “fun space” for her bachelor life. By devising events like this that can be done by oneself, the “solitary life of seclusion” can be transformed into a life with a sense of fulfillment.
However, the number of people infected with the new type of coronavirus has been repeatedly expanding and decreasing. It still feels a little while before we can lead a virus-free life as before. When we asked the doctor how to avoid stress as much as possible, he spoke frankly and honestly.
He said, “I too have exploded many times due to stress over the past two and a half years (laughs). So I am looking for ways to avoid explosions myself. When I reach my limit, I make a lot of izakaya menus, as I mentioned earlier, but the truth is that I wish I could vent a little bit every day so that I don’t explode in the first place.”
The unprecedented source of stress that is the “self-restraint lifestyle” makes it difficult to find ways to avoid it. Still, repeating trial and error in order to resist may be the way to make progress little by little.
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