ビジネス日本語講座

終われない旅人——自由という名の牢獄|The Endless Traveler — When Freedom Becomes a Cage

Freedom is often imagined as constant movement — drifting from country to country, living without ties, escaping the repetition of ordinary life. But when traveling becomes a person’s identity, the road itself turns into a cage. In this episode, I explore the paradox of endless wandering: how stimulation replaces depth, how motion becomes avoidance, and how a traveler slowly loses the ability to stop. True freedom is not found in perpetual escape but in the courage to pause, to return, and to let experience settle into meaning. A journey must end somewhere — not on the map, but within one’s inner world.