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Reflections on Aging and Self-Acceptance: Tamaki Kawasaki’s Observations

Tamaki Kawasaki’s “Reiwa People” observation log – The state Kosuke Minowa achieved after falling from the Bunshun Cannon

2023.12.30 (Saturday) Tamaki Kawasaki Follow the following photo is for illustrative purposes only (Source: Pixabay)

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(Tamaki Kawasaki: columnist)

To live is to know your “bad self”

Anyone can live for several decades, or even half a century, and recover from injuries large and small. You may find yourself cut twice in the same place that was supposed to heal. If there are people known as the “kings of self-confidence boosting”, whose self-esteem increases as they live, it is likely that their starting point was quite low or that their self-esteem has been compromised by some kind of something or thing that is addictive. There is a possibility that he is distorted or has a mental illness.

Usually, the longer you live, the more you realize that you are not good and accept that you are not as good as you thought, but this is who you are and how you will behave with that person from now on. It’s something you need to think about carefully.

This year, when I, a member of the junior baby boom generation, born in 1973, turned 50, I thought about many things. At my alma mater, the all-girls middle and high school, a reunion was held to commemorate everyone’s 50th birth anniversary, and I learned a lot by meeting my teachers and classmates for the first time in about 35 years.

To be honest, in living things that have been used continuously for 50 years, there are notable individual differences as a result of the operation. Then classmates who attended the same preparatory school, wore the same uniforms and laughed in the same way, recount their current situation, which can only be described as completely different. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I felt like I was competing to see how hard I worked and how successful I was, but when I hit my 50s, I realized that the purpose of life was not to win or lose compared to others, but to see how successful I was. As expected of adults, they evaluate themselves based on absolute values ​​rather than relative values, such as being satisfied with themselves and “living well.”

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