Is it really true that 'money brings happiness'?

Every event in life is a world reflected by your own heart.

Hello.

To have a calm heart and be happy.

I am Yukiyo-chan, here to help you gently untie the knots in your heart and return to your true self🌿

Not long after I moved to Hoshino Village.

Around my house and my parents' home,

Dokudami (fish mint).

Yomogi (mugwort).

Karamushi (ramie).

Mint.

Kumazasa (bamboo grass).

Fig leaves.

And even flowers and plants whose names I didn't know,

were growing in such abundance.

When I was in Tokyo,

honestly,

I thought,

'There are so many weeds.'

But thinking about it now,

Back then,

I wasn't looking at the grass,

I might have been looking at my own values.

A word from my father

A while after I moved to Hoshino Village,

when I thought about drying wild grasses to sell,

my father said something to me.

"You're going to sell that?"

"Will it even sell?"

When I heard those words,

I couldn't help but smile a little.

It is true,

it's just grass growing by the roadside.

I wondered if there was anyone who would actually pay money for it.

Even I,

was skeptical at first.

But,

I knew.

Ever since I was a child, with a field guide in one hand,

I had always loved making wild grass tea.

And,

I also knew that there were people looking for wild plants grown naturally without the use of pesticides.

So,

"Let's just try it first."

That's what I thought.

People in the past knew.

The more I researched,

people in the past,

season by season,

made use of wild plants in their daily lives at that time.

Dokudami (fish mint).

Yomogi (mugwort).

Choma (ramie).

Fig leaves.

All of them,

were not special things in the past.

They were familiar plants,

right there in their daily lives.

Now that there are more convenient things,

the wisdom we have forgotten,

There was a lot of it left over.

I tried selling it as an experiment.

I obtained a business permit,

and decided to try selling dried wild herbs.

Yame City and Hoshino Village

have a culture of green tea.

However,

there is almost no culture of incorporating dried wild herbs into daily life.

There is almost none.

I felt anxious, wondering, 'Will people really pick these up?'

I had those kinds of worries.

Even so, about three months after I started selling them,

before I knew it,

it had become a product that about 100 people would pick up each month.

'It was delicious.'

'I came back to buy more.'

'It smells good.'

'It's completely different from what I've been drinking until now.'

'So fig leaves really do smell like figs.'

I started to receive comments like these little by little.

My father, too, now

without saying a word,

helps me cut wood,

and pick wild herbs😊

Is it really true that roadside weeds can become treasures?

At that moment,

I realized something.

Are treasures,

things that look like treasures from the very beginning?

If,

I had continued to live in Tokyo,

these plants,

would surely have remained,

"weeds"

for their entire lives.

What changed,

was not the plants.

It was my perspective.

Is it really true that "money brings happiness"?

Of course,

money is important.

It is also necessary for daily life.

I also believe it is necessary to continue my business.

However,

even if you have money,

if you cannot notice the beauty of the flowers blooming at your feet,

if you cannot feel the scent of the seasons,

'I've come to buy from you again.'

'Thank you.'

If you cannot encounter such words,

I,

do not think I would be as happy as I am now.

Wealth,

is not about having a lot,

but about noticing what you already have.

That is what I feel.

What Hoshino Village taught me

Coming to Hoshino Village,

the treasure I found is,

It was not a product.

It was a flower blooming by the roadside.

In the past,

it would have been just a weed.

Now,

it is a treasure that someone would happily pick up.

What changed,

was not the grass.

It was my heart.

Wealth,

and happiness too,

are not things you acquire anew,

but things you realize are already there.

When you think of it that way,

life starts to look a little different.

That is why, even today,

I ask myself.

Is it really true that money brings happiness?

Perhaps,

happiness is,

Not in the balance of your bank account,

But in the flowers blooming at your feet.

In someone's smile.

In the words,

'Thank you.'

And,

In your own heart that can notice these things,

It may have been there all along.

Thank you for reading today as well,

Thank you very much🌿

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