BGM: Pizzicato Five - 陽の当たる大通り
Today I worked late. It was quite a fine day, and I couldn't read Yasuharu Konishi's "My Beatles" at the reading time at the morning. Probably it was too fine and my mood got so excited that I couldn't face the book steadily. I gave up reading more and started enjoying soul music as Stevie Wonder, and talked with my friends about the topic of "analog" and "digital" on a group on LINE as I wrote yesterday, and also finished the homework of the English conversation class. A friend said to us that we should use the things what we can use, so we don't need to decide what we can't use to do at the first rapidly. We need to have a soft attitude to use them with the tactic of eclecticism.
Referring to that "eclecticism", we often wander whether we have to choose between two opposite things. They can be any large topic of "conservativism or liberalism", or "The Beatles or Rolling Stones", "Rimbaud or Baudelaire", "Godard or Truffaut", etc. It becomes complicated because people even make some parties about this problem. I believe that we don't have to be so serious, but just try to enjoy "anything good is good". We can stand by Giants even though we are the fans of Hanshin Tigers. If we decided to deny the opposite thing because of "I stand by this", it would bring a narrow point of view... I thought this by the message of the LINE group. We have to keep the wisdom of finding the right decision between two things.
Writing the essay for the English conversation class, I thought that I am living in the "change of the era". When I was just 20, "Windows 95" was started to be sold and the internet was started to be used actually. In other ways, I admit that I know the era which the division of countries were hot as Cold War. And I also have watched the division has been melted by the globalization by the internet. The internet is, I also guess, also melting the wall between the city and the countryside, not only the wall between countries. Now, we can catch various new cultural news even though we stay in Shiso city, a countryside town. Indeed, city life has its greatness. But this life in Shiso suits for me.
Now is the era that we can live freely not only in this real world but in the virtual internet world with using various digital devices. I want to think the "real world's beauty" first with the expression supported by the era of that digital age. This world is full of beautiful things, and they are provided in front of us with 3D, dynamic scenery. And also, "now, this moment" is just the thing we can enjoy "now" (yes, this is tautology). "Now, this moment" is always in front of us which never will come back as the real time scenery... it reminds me of Sartre's philosophy. It is important for me that I can enjoy this miracle of living "now, this moment" which never come back again. Now, I am living the now, the moment with Pizzicato Five's elegant tunes.
