
I made some coasters before.
I called a friend of mine to say happy birthday to her the other day as the same as previous years. We met at high school for the first time.
I always admire that she strongly follows her will. For example, she spent two years for the entrance exam of a certain university she had really wanted to enter after high school. Her dream had come true and she became a pharmacist. She doesn’t have a smartphone even now. She always goes her way.
We also talked about our reminiscences of our old days including our trips. Two other friends and we went on a trip to Sado Island in our twenties because I had been intrigued by a tub boat, a round wooden boat, when I watched it on TV. I finally paddled this boat in a special way. It was interesting.
According to her, although I forgot saying that in my twenties, I had wanted to visit China, and to climb Mt. Fuji. I accomplished both later.
When I was younger, I had many dreams, but I have few ones now.
I was surprised to hear from her that her dream was to visit Sagrada Familia with her son with disabilities.
I liked to go abroad very much before, but I lost the motivation. It’s enough for me to watch foreign countries on TV now. I admire her dream. It will come true for sure someday because of her.
I have been thinking about my dream since we talked.
I wish I lived like Tasha Tudor and Venetia Stanley Smith. I was shocked to hear that Venetia passed away last June.
They had their own gardens and they enjoyed their lives with gardening and handmade things humbly.
Emiko Inagaki, a minimalist, said that when you get older, s smaller dream is better because it's easier to come true, and you will be less discouraged even though you can't accomplish it.
Am I eighty years old?
I finished reading all pages of The Japan Times Alpha, 8/4 issue.
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