notes

• 「まま」 is a noun meaning “unchanged condition”
• ex: 「自然のままの森」 means “a forest in its natural state” or “a forest in the unchanged condition of nature”
• ex: 「そのままで食べられるの？」 means “That unchanged state-being, eatable does?”
  • this 「で」 is the copula 「だ」 and can be omitted
• ex: 「いつまでも若いままでいたい。」 means “I always want to stay in this young, unchanged state.”
  • notice that the adjective 「若い」 is modifying the noun 「まま」
• 「思いのまま」 means “in the unchanged condition in our thoughts”
  • always applied to something outside oneself
  • carries a meaning of wanting to make the outside world conform to one’s thoughts
  • similar expression 「心のまま」
• 「わがまま」 means “selfish” or “selfishness”
  • 「我が」 means “my” or “our”
  • 「わがまま」 means “my unchanged will”

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