2013年2月26日火曜日

#2 What I want to change about myself.

There is the thing I really want to change about myself.

I'm often out of line... too ‘live-and-let-live’ type.

Especially in Japan, there is a culture of ‘cooperating with each other’or ‘all hands on deck’.
I think it's too strong. There is a saying ‘長い物には巻かれろ(means like can't fight city hall)’.
Thereby, I feel it's more difficult people express their identities... if they do it, others may see them as weirdos.

I hate the way of thinking I do because others also do.
While at the same time, I'm too out of line.

For example, there is a tactless man in your office.
What do you do for him?
I think the actions people around him do are divided into three types.
1. Helping him.
2. Reminding and trying to improve.
3. Letting he is.
As it is now, my choice is definitely No.3. I think I never have feelings like No.1. I never want to help him if he's just a tactless man and seems to be able to improve him way easily.
In this case, the best way seems No.2. We can make him more conscious, and also make ourselves feel better, perhaps.
But I often feel what a bother...
If I don't change myself from now on, I can't change my surrounding. Both people around me and I never improve nothing.

It doesn't mean that I'm not interested in others at all.
I think, I'm good at absorbing  antagonistic or different views from mine, so-so.
But just that's all.
I want to be able to take one step further, I mean, want to be able to discuss good points and bad ones of each other.




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I'm so sorry I couldn't finish this entry sooner...
It was so difficult for me to write in English about my feelings I can't express enough even in Japanese, my mother tongue.
But I'll try continuing.

2013年2月11日月曜日

About Blogging Challenge; The 2013 Challenge

順番が前後してしまいましたが…。
ちょっと英語を頑張ってみようと思います。

普段、twitterをかなり汎用しているわけなんですが、
いつの間にやら、ラルク繋がりで海外のフォロワーさんが増え、交流するようになり、“生きた英語”を感じるようになりました。

で、もっときちんと勉強しようかなぁ、と。

当初、このブログにて、yukihiroさんのコラムの英訳でもしようかなと思ったのですが、
それをとあるフォロワーさんに相談したところ、この“The 2013 Challenge”という企画を立ててくれました。
海外のフォロワーさん4人と私がそれぞれに、毎週決められたテーマについてブログを書いていく予定です。

他の皆さんは勿論英語が堪能なので、英語を学ぶためにブログを書くわけではなく、文章を書くスキルを上げるために参加しています。
なので、私の投稿だけがやたらと幼稚な文で拙いものだと思いますが…(苦笑)
そこはもう、開き直って、彼らに支えてもらいながら、続けられたらなぁと考えています。

全体のテーマはBecoming A Better Person and To Live A Better Life.

4人のブログを紹介しておきます。
また、もしも、やりたい!って人がいたら是非。ご相談を。
Sketchy: http://thesketchbookjournal.wordpress.com/
Satticus Rex: http://thedotsproject.wordpress.com/
Desiree: http://completewithfears.wordpress.com/
Nerissa: http://adventuresinthesuperunknown.wordpress.com/

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#1 Write Down Things I Would Like To Do In 2013

To live, there are the words I keep in mind.

“20s: The term to pick up
  30s: The term to make a choice
  40s: The term to deepen”


I should enlarge my horizons during my 20s by picking up many things and meeting many people.
To do this is so important for thinking about what I need, what I want to deepen, with precision as well as I can when I'm in my 30s.
I'm 28 years old now. It's almost the end of my 20s.
I wnat to live this year, 2013, with being more aware of “meeting many people and things” than ever before.

By the way, I'm a pharmacist.
I was raised comfortably from my childhood, not so rich though, just ordinary.
Also my friends were raised almost the same as me.
All entered high schools after we graduated junior high schools.
And most of my HS friends and I entered universities because the one I attended was a college-preparatory school.
After educated, we got our jobs as salaried workers.
Recently, the friends got married one after another, and perhaps, they'll give birth in the near future.

Now, I challenge such a conventional way of life like that.
I want to find my own way of expressing individuality.

My destination is; “a pharmacist +α”

Not only a salaried pharmacist, I want to become a unique one having something special.
I'll try to find the “” this year.
So I try to many many things what I'm interested in.


[Details]

Ⅰ. What I've already decided to do
・Trying to finish a full-length marathon in Mar.
・Traveling to Thailand in Apr.
・Going to see rock festivals in May and Aug, and other many lives.

Ⅱ. What I want to do, or I'm interested in
・Volunteer works (related to art or medication)
・Aroma therapist
・Cooking (with thinking about nutriology)
・Drawing and painting
・Playing the guitar and the piano
・Playing badminton (once I played)

And, of course, ENGLISH.


At the end, I want to introduce the words Yusuke Kobayashi (from THE NOVEMBERS) said when he talked with KENT (from Lillies and Remains)
(You can read it on Ongaku-to-Hito, Feb.2013)

“I think who can understand if the things are what he should do or not and carry out for real, is much nicer and cleverer than who can do everything without thinking so much.”

Really I think so, too.