2010年8月9日(月）11時19分。
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The Alarm Clock of Life
Thursday, August 26, 2010.
On Monday, August 9, 2010, at 11:19 a.m., the life of one person, born in 1928, came to an end.
Born in 1928, one, single life has come to an end.
He was a man like this.
He was born into a family that was not wealthy, but he lived his life with sincerity and devotion to his destiny.
After graduating from elementary school, he went to Osaka to work as an apprentice in the printing industry, and continued working as a printer in Kobe until the age of 65.
He was born in the Showa Era (1926-1989) and is a stubborn old-fashioned person.
A person who has been deaf since elementary school and stubbornly refuses to get hearing aids or disability certificates even though he cannot hear.
Those who, in spite of their poverty, sent their children to private universities even at the cost of their own lives.
A person who has humbly continued to live his life the way he wants to live it, without being carried away by the world of decorum.
A person who can't express half of what he wants to say in words.
A person who always worries about his/her children's health in secret.
What I received
Life
Compassion and consideration for others
To live with sincerity
About 10,000 photos (with comments from time to time)
To live sincerely and a little stubbornly.
My letter of joy when I entered university.
The things that worried me a lot when I was wandering around the world for 3 months in my senior year of college (I had a calendar of those days with words of concern).
A backside that never said much but worried with an attitude.
The backs of people who never talk much, but worry with their attitude. Shyness.
More and more things.
I can't write it all down........
I can't write it all down.
One month before he breathed his last, I wrote down my gratitude for his life on three sheets of letter paper, handed them to him, and asked him to read them.
→That's all.
That is my father. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see him die.
A parent's heart is a child's heart.
I thought I could understand the feelings of parents a little more now that I have children, but in reality, I'm not at all. I left home after college, so we were separated for more than 20 years, but I know from my father's album diary how he felt and how he thought about his children.
I am ashamed to say that there are so many things that I didn't realize until after he passed away.
I am truly grateful to my father.
I think that since I was a child, I had an aversion to the idea of death. Perhaps because I was born after my parents were old, my parents were the oldest of all my classmates in elementary school. Perhaps that is why I was so scared that my parents were going to die.
Whenever a hearse drove by, I always secretly hid both thumbs. It is a superstition, but I was such a child. Even recently, I could not watch the Academy Award-winning movie "Departures.
One is born alone, and one dies alone. Someday we will end our lives.
When you are born, you are welcomed with tears of joy by many people, and when you die, you are sent off with tears of loneliness by many people. That is the kind of life I want to live.
In Franklin Corvey's famous book, "Seven Habits," there is a phrase, "The Alarm Clock of Life. It is said that when a person experiences death or a major setback in his or her life, the alarm clock of his or her life goes off.
People always see "death" as something far away. They do not see it as something that lies beneath their feet. Perhaps it is the uncertainty of the deadline of life and death that gives people relief.
Rakuten's Mr. Mikitani's life alarm clock went off with the death of his relatives in the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
Mr. Son of Softbank's life alarm clock was set off by his own battle with chronic hepatitis.
Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. set off the alarm clock of his life with his own battle with pancreatic cancer.
Watami's Mr. Watanabe's life alarm clock went off with the death of his mother when he was a child.
I think that the way of life of people whose life alarm clocks have gone off is often bold and inspiring.
Since August 9, the alarm clock of my life has been ringing.
And I don't know how to stop this alarm clock. 。。。。
AkiraTsuchiya
