BGM: SBK - Tokyo LV
I had gotten two days off, today and tomorrow so went back to my parent's house in the next town. This morning I went to the library to borrow a book and went to Aeon. A friend of mine on Facebook said that she had done a donation to Turkey which had suffered from a big earthquake. I followed her and did a tiny donation there. A lot of people had passed away... that news made my mind depressed, and I thought that I had experienced (or watched) two big earthquakes in Japan (in 1995 and 2003). What can I do through those earthquakes? The scenery I saw at Aeon was quite peaceful and it let me think how precious our life's peace is. Of course, it has been made from great efforts by the people who treat our useful daily life steadily. And I want to say that is because every people does our best in our fields.
This afternoon I arrived at my home and had lunch with my parents. I took a nap and tried to read Kenichiro Mogi or Shinsuke Shimojo's books in my room, but they didn't come into my head. It would be that the environment or situation changed, so I spent my afternoon time with A Tribe Called Quest in a relaxed mood. The books on my bookshelf attracted my mind. They were the ones I had bought, and one of them was Meisei Goto's "In The Wall". I salvaged this book because I had found this on the bookshelf for 100 yen, and thought that "Reading Meisei Goto's books must not be a waste of time" even if I had not known this book's value. From this troublesome season, I want to face this really thick book as a brick. Besides that, I noticed my young days' passion again because of the books by Shinji Miyadai, that I had read really seriously. It made me smile. Once I had done my efforts hard to live this complicated life.
The evening I read Shinsuke Shimojo's book "Subliminal Impact" I had read this afternoon, but it still didn't come into my mind easily. Shimojo discusses his clear thinking steadily from a lot of data of experiences and points out that the things we need to do or purchase are the products we have to choose from by the force of our society. But he doesn't say that it must be a scene of dystopia. He doesn't praise that and just says that we have to look at that real state. I was impressed by his discussion and thought that I was just the person who chooses the books Amazon and bookmeter suggested. I treat them as the ones I chose by chance, but it is because the algorithm suggests "for me" from enormous data on the vast sea of the internet.
I met Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Wood", and was moved by Fishmans's music, and also found a lot of ideas from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hirokazu Koreeda's movies. The fact that I have met a lot of important things as I wrote above, and also the fact that I have met many, quite many friends I am connecting with (the "danshu" meeting, the meeting about autism, and the English conversation class, etc). Then, what is this brain which has been attracted by them? I also can say that every day I meet various things like those I wrote above, and also pass them usually. I might be able to say that I would meet Haruki Murakami and Fishmans one day, so I shouldn't think too seriously. Like Hideo Kobayashi, a Japanese legendary intellectual would meet Arthur Rimbaud one day. But even though I immerse myself in that kind of cynical way of thinking, I have to think about how the chances or accidents in my life would work. The element of luck... Kankichi Ryotsu, a popular Japanese wild policeman in a cartoon says that our life totally depends on luck. I don't think that, but I can say that I am a lucky guy because of my past life.
