170Japanese proverb ことわざ
喉元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる
のどもとすぎればあつさをわすれるNodomoto sugireba atsusa o wasureru
“Once past the throat, the burn is forgotten.”
The meaning
Past pain fades fast — and with it the lesson, the gratitude toward those who helped, the resolutions made. Remembering on purpose is a discipline.
At the origin
A proverb about forgetting trials and debts of gratitude.
The characters
- 喉元 nodomotothroat
- 過ぎれ sugireto pass
- ば baif (condition)
- 熱さ
- を
- 忘れる
ばParticleThe Japanese “if”: “if… then”.
In practice
Write down what a recent trial taught, before the throat forgets.