I remembered how I used to cry a lot in my childhood, which is unimaginable now. I want to talk about the end of a summer when I was able to live purely and like a human being like I did back then.
On a hot summer day when I was a student, I went with a friend to get my scuba diving license. The instructor at the time taught me that if I was being tossed around by rough waves and felt in danger, I should cling to a nearby big rock and ask for help from an advanced diver. But calm seas are not attractive either. A yacht moves forward with the wind, but the most difficult time is when there is no wind. At first glance, it may seem more difficult to move forward against the wind, but a method called "tacking" is used to tilt the sails to catch the wind and move forward in a zigzag pattern. Am I the only one who feels something similar to life?
It has been about a year and a half since Iolite was born into the world. I faced various difficulties, but I was able to overcome them with a lot of support which felt just like tacking a yacht. Perhaps it was my own perfectionism that had driven me to the brink, but even though I had been struggling with an unexplained illness since the beginning of this year, somehow I still had managed to get through it.I felt like I was desperately clinging to something while being tossed about by rough waves.
Looking back, I have had many experiences since I assumed the role of editor-in-chief, but the process leading up to the birth of Iolite was the most emotional period for me.
I may have written about this in an editorial post some time ago, but I have had the experience of creating something, whether by chance or by starting a baseball club, twice in my student days. When I was a child, I was often made to cry by a girl who was my childhood friend, but by this time, perhaps my tears had dried up or I had lost my emotions, and although I was moved, I no longer shed tears. If this was the price of experiencing a hellish situation as a student, I am filled with the desire to rewind time.
There was also a strange encounter at the end of this summer. It was around June. Our company announced its participation in WebX, one of the largest Web 3.0 conference in Japan, on August 28th and 29th. Iolite was chosen to take the lead in exhibiting at the conference. From this point on, I began to engage in related work in earnest. Strangely enough, it was around this time that I began to show signs of recovery.
I guess I'm naturally drawn to new challenges and creativity. I'm afraid to get personal, but my first child was due to be born on September 1st, a few days after the conference. This was an element that made up an unforgettable memory for me.
It would be boring to list all the work I was doing at the time, so I'll skip it, but there's no doubt that this was the period of my life when I was most engrossed in my work, forgetting to eat or sleep. When I was a university student, I was determined to get all my credits in three years, so I took classes from 8am to 7pm for a week, and then worked until 2am at a restaurant where I worked part-time, working much harder than when I had shingles.
Perhaps it was because I invested all of Iolite's resources, but WebX was completed without any problems, and my daughter was born safely on August 31st. During this week, I felt like I was back to my childhood when I was a crybaby. I wonder if this was the first time I've cried at work since I was a student. Still, I was filled with humanity, and through the experience of standing on a new stage, I became a stronger person. The experience of witnessing a birth is one of the greatest gifts in life, and it gives you the opportunity to be reborn.
"Life is full of difficulties, but it is still beautiful."
One of the words left by Mother Teresa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her dedicated support for people suffering from poverty and illness, is that people are beautiful in their very existence, and even when they face adversity or difficulties, they are still beautiful.
People are beautiful. And people who face adversity and difficulties are also beautiful and rare.
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