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What is most important? |
by Electric Jellyfish [2013/10/4]
I was impressed with Mami Sato's speech at IOC meeting:
"I lost my leg to cancer.
Of course, it was hard.
I was in despair
until I returned to University and started athletics."
"Most of all, I learnt that what was important was what I had,
not what I had lost."
Her message encouraged me.
My eye is getting worse and worse,
but I can still see.
I can hear, speak, walk, eat, drink, write, hold things, move, breathe,...,
yes, I can manage to do every daily thing without help.
Of course, how much we have doesn't necessarily mean how happy we are.
I have lost some of my most valuable things, persons, pets, and so on.
My loss is very big. Huge, probably.
However, I still have lots of fond memories of them.
Life is sometimes very hard, sometimes deeply sad.
It is full of sufferings.
Sorrow and agony sometimes hit us.
Still, we have to keep living.
In order to live the rest of my life,
I think I need to look things from different point of view.
Now that the ceiling over my head which restricted my behaviour for a long time
has disappeared,
I can live freely.
Isn't that so?
In any case,
it seems to be high time for me to reconsider what is important.
What is most important?
Regretting the past?
Worrying about future?
Isn't it the time to start living like "SUNAFUKIN"?
Yes, yes, I remember that
I am also one of the creatures who love nature and freedom.