Something like a diary for October 25, 2025

I went for a 6,200-step walk starting at 6:00 AM. After returning home, I took care of the garden trees and planted green onion seedlings.
Yesterday, I worked from 6:00 AM to 1:00 PM. In between, I got caught up in a conversation with several veterans, and their opinions on workplace issues and how people work came pouring out. It left me feeling gloomy.
For lunch, I had frozen fried rice. I watched "cocoon," which I had recorded in August but hadn't seen yet. It is an anime adaptation by NHK based on the manga by Machiko Kyo. It depicts young girls who are inevitably drawn into the horrors of war. Although the setting is supposed to be a fictional southern country, it is clearly modeled after the Battle of Okinawa and the tragedy of the Himeyuri Student Corps. The girls are cornered by enemy attacks and abandoned by their own military. In the midst of the fighting, the protagonists try to protect their fragile minds from the ravages of war by dreaming of life on a beautiful island where flowers are in full bloom. The depiction of the girls losing their lives one after another is also aligned with those daydreams. Because of this, the cruelty of war is etched even more sharply into the viewer's heart. It was a truly heartbreaking work to watch. Since NHK went to the trouble of producing it, they should broadcast this masterpiece at least once a year.
For dinner, we had simmered eggplant made by my wife and a meat and vegetable stir-fry that I made. I spent the time after dinner just zoning out. I went to bed early after taking a bath.