I'll write this down for a memo. An author named Ryu Murakami has passed away. I feel like I've written this before, but there was a long period where I couldn't read books. In the midst of that, there was a book called "Coin Locker Babies" (was it two volumes?), and for some reason, I read it all at once. I remember being drawn into its world of madness and finishing it.
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My daughter says interesting things.
"When I go out, I always look for people who resemble someone I know on the street. Like people from school or teachers. And I walk around thinking, 'This person really looks like XX-chan from XX class.' I see them quite often."
"Wow, that's interesting!"
"Yeah, but I've never seen anyone who looks like me."
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I think I was mistaken.
It is just a series of working hard with no results to show for it. Even if I ponder whether there is something wrong with how I'm trying hard, there is no correct answer. Anyway, it's about taking on challenges... Ever since I jumped into a completely unknown world, I've truly been plunging my hand into the dark, feeling around hoping there is some "good thing or opportunity" there. Living every day with such feelings and actions, honestly, I think I've been doing this for years, clinging to the nameless, heartfelt wish and prayer that "today of all days, please let it be a good day."
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I suppose I'm the type of person who enjoys pretty much everything and works hard at various things.
When I was little, I used to be in the Boy Scouts, and I think I enjoyed various aspects of that as well.
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Lately, I've been thinking that, just like in sports, you don't move forward by only taking side steps.
It was good that people generally had the opportunity to learn about gender diversity and think, "Ah, so there are those kinds of perspectives too."
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Pyramids are amazing. Each direction is perfect, the adhesive for the stones is still unknown, and there's a lot of other mysterious engineering. Could intelligent beings beyond the speed of evolution on Earth at the time have contributed to that technology? Aliens??? It's interesting to think about.
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Constellations—their names haven't changed in years, have they?
Learning from the past is fine, but if we just force the past onto young people, nothing new is going to come out of it. When it comes to talking about stars, for a child, it's like, "Ah, there are so many things I have to memorize, it's tough, I mustn't make a mistake, I have to learn the constellations properly, or I'll get yelled at! I'll be made fun of!" right?
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I like concepts like paradoxes and contradictions. For example, a sign that says "Distracted Driving Danger!" which you can only see if you are distracted driving, makes me smirk.
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