Everyone is a good person.

I finished reading "Tsubaki no Koibumi".
It's one of the books in the "Tsubaki Stationery Store" series.

I really love it.

During Golden Week, when I started reading "Tsubaki no Koibumi",
my husband and I watched "Our Little Sister" on Netflix.

I've seen it many times, but it was my husband's first time.

"It was interesting," he said,
though I feel like he talked more about how "Masami Nagasawa is so beautiful" lol

And then, it suddenly occurred to me.

I love "Kamome Diner," "Our Little Sister," and the "Tsubaki Stationery Store" series.

And the people who appear in them,
I think they are the kind of people I fundamentally want to be.

For example, Sachie-san from "Kamome Diner."

When Midori-san, who is staying with her, makes a suggestion about the shop,
it wouldn't be strange if Sachie-san thought, "You're just a freeloader, don't tell me what to do."

But Sachie-san doesn't deny her.

She listens properly and tries it out.

Midori-san, too, while knowing her own position,
honestly thinks, "I want more customers to come to the shop."

Poppo-chan from "Tsubaki Stationery Store" is the same.

It's hard enough just raising her husband's child from a previous marriage,
and if you add puberty and a rebellious phase on top of that,
it wouldn't be strange to think, "You little brat."

Even more so, if your own child is born,
it feels like you might end up loving that one more.

But Poppo-chan loves QP-chan very much and worries about her properly.

Even while worrying,
she watches over her warmly, calling it "time medicine."

Even in "Our Little Sister," with their half-sister,
you'd think at least one of the older sisters would be mean, but they are all kind.

They cherish Suzu-chan very much.

Of course, I don't think they never feel unpleasant or conflicted.
But they don't let themselves be swept away by meanness.

They try to see the other person for who they are.

Everyone is a good person.

That's why I think I'm drawn to stories like that.

Perhaps I have always wanted to be like those people.

I think mean feelings are, in the end, an act of bullying oneself.
You don't have to be a good person for everything,

but still, I don't like being mean.

In the past, I've seen my mean self many times.
(Though I've never openly done anything like bullying 😅)

When that side of me appears,

"Well, I understand. You'd think that, wouldn't you."

I want to say that and come to terms with it myself.

And I will live my life so that I am not swayed by the part of me that thinks such things.

"Tsubaki Stationery Store" series ☺️

📖Tsubaki Stationery Store

📖Kirakira Republic

📖Tsubaki no Koibumi

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