a wrappingpaper

Christmas reminds me of one Christmas present that I gave my son.

It was a long time ago.

I had to give him a present that Santa should have given him.

So, I bought a nice present in my neighborhood shop and put it in my son's room.

Next morning, my son found it and was very pleased.

"Santa gave me a nice present, and it is what I really wanted to get." he said to me.

I was able to buy it, because I heard from him about it beforehand.

Then he said to me.

"Santa bought it in that shop because it was wrapt in that shop's wrappingpaper."

I could not say anything about it.

adversities

自分は今、逆境の世界にいると思う。

またしかし、人生の頂点に立っているような気もしている。

先日、NOVAの教師に、

「I feel being on the summit of my life.」

と、話したのを覚えている。

自分は何度も挫折を味わい、そのつど　「もうだめだ。」　と思った。

しかし、今も健在だ。

要は、その局面をどうとらえるかだと思う。

またそんな時こそ、困難に立ち向かう努力が必要だと思う。

決して振り返ってはならない・後悔してはならない。

最近やっと、それができるようになってきたと思う。

しかし今はまだ、逆境に立ち向かう自分と、翻弄される自分が同時に見える。

At the time, I can see myself falling into and then overcoming adversities.

a coat

My most impressed Christmas memory is a coat.

It was a strange Christmas present for me.

It happened around thirty-five years ago.

I bet on a hoｒse race and got some money.

It was a sale, so I went shopping some nice clothes for me and my girlfriend, she is my wife now, with that money.

I found a nice coat for me, but it was so expensive that I could not buy a cloth for my wife.

On the contrary, that money was not enough to buy it.

Then my wife recommended me to buy it because it fit me nicely, and she offered to spend what I had run out.

Anyway, I was able to buy it and it was my treasure.

Recently, I had an opportunity to look at it, but it was spoiled by biting of insect.

I missed it.