Finding Solid Footprints Beyond the Numbers

Good morning. Yesterday, I went with the person I have been walking toward our goals with to check the exam results.

I watched her slightly tense profile as she stared at the numbers lined up on the bulletin board. The result was a little short of what she had hoped for, and it pointed to a score lower than my own.

Although she slumped her shoulders a little, a quiet sense of conviction spread through my heart. My score was exactly as I had predicted based on how I felt beforehand. That meant it was the best possible proof that the time I had spent building up with her was by no means off the mark.

“What should we work on, and how far should we go?” The things we had targeted and worked on were correctly connected to the right answers. Knowing that the “path” was correct, rather than the numbers themselves, made me feel like I wanted to appreciate her efforts from the bottom of my heart.

The world is overflowing with voices that seek only results and rush toward the “technique of getting the right answer.” But what is truly important is to correctly know your current location and walk step by step on your own two feet. Even if we didn't reach the desired numbers this time, the map we drew was not wrong.

On the way home, while being blown by the slightly cold spring wind, we drank 300-yen coffee together. “We can just start fresh from here.” The reason I can think that way might be because a certain “calm” that cannot be measured by numbers is growing within her.

To cherish an imperfect day just as it is. It was a day that made me feel once again that this is the shortest path to regaining our “sovereignty of the heart.”

May you, today, not be bound by anyone's expectations or numbers, and may you find your own calm sea.

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