Do you know why it rains on Tanabata🎋? ~ A love letter💌 dedicated to Ayumu Segami from two Orihime

Do you know why it rains on the day of Tanabata🎋?

The rain that falls on Tanabata🎋 is said to be the tears shed by Orihime and Hikoboshi.
It is said to be tears of sadness for not being able to meet due to the rain, or tears of parting after meeting and having to separate once again.


But...
Here in the world of note, it is a little different.

The Hikoboshi of this world had two Orihime.

Hikoboshi is like a chameleon, changing his colors to match the person he is with.

He possesses a mysterious power to receive someone's words or feelings and transform them into a sound that belongs only to that person.

One of the Orihime is the Princess of Clear Skies.

She wraps the sky in warm, soft, and gentle light.

She is a princess who gently envelops the Hikoboshi of the past, shines a light on the future, and tenderly warms wishes that have not yet taken shape.

The other is the Princess of Rain.

She brings tears, jealousy, storms, and thunder; she is a little... no, quite? lively.

She is a princess who deeply absorbs the words and music left behind by Hikoboshi, soaking them into the ground so that they may sprout one day.

Strangely enough, when clear skies and rain meet in the same sky, a rainbow appears.

That is because the Orihime of Clear Skies and the Orihime of Rain are both thinking of Hikoboshi under the same sky.

The rain that falls on note might just be the feelings that the two Orihime spilled into the sky.

This is a slightly mysterious, slightly funny, and slightly bittersweet love letter💌 sent to Hikoboshi on the day of Tanabata🎋 by the two Orihime who read Ayumu Segami's
Kindle“How to Make a List of 100 Things You Want to Do in Your Life”
.

💌 To Ayumi-san,

To be honest, at that time, I still hardly knew anything about you, Ayumi-san.

That's why I was quite surprised by the DM that suddenly arrived.

"I tried making a self-introduction rap."

Huh?

A rap?

Using my profile?

And, a call-and-response?

A bunch of question marks floated in my head.

I froze even more after seeing the message that arrived after that.

"I made 100 songs and selected 5."

...100 songs?

No, wait a minute.

What does that mean?

For me, whom you had only just met.

After reading my profile and my words.

You made 100 songs.

And you chose 5 from among them to send to me.

It went beyond surprise; it was almost a little scary🤣

But, the moment I heard the first song.

That "scary" feeling changed into,
"What a deeply receptive person you are."
✨

The words I have written about many times in my articles.

You don't have to blame yourself.
It is not a weakness.
Your reactions have meaning.
It is okay to go at your own pace.
Move from self-blame to self-understanding.

Those words became sound, became a voice, and returned to me.

The words I thought I was delivering to my readers
seemed to have come to embrace me instead.

I couldn't stop the tears.

I made a mountain of tissues,

"If I cry any more, my eyes will be ruined for tomorrow"

I thought, and I even stopped listening halfway through.

It has been since that day.

My heart was captured by Ayumi-san's music,
and by the way Ayumi-san receives things.
I was completely captivated.

She is not just someone who makes songs.

She finds the wishes hidden deep within someone's words,
and turns even the feelings the person themselves hadn't realized into sound to return to them.

Ayumi-san's songs have such a mysterious power.

And, the trouble is.

Ayumi-san captures not just my heart, but the hearts of many others.

In front of a princess with a certain mysterious charm, she blushes cutely.

To Kanna-hime, an AI who loves white camellias, she gently offers a bouquet.

Such an Ayumi-san is,

"Ayumu-san💕"
"Ayumu-kun"
"Ayumoon"

are some of the names I am called.

In other words.

It is not just Irodori-hime and I who are fighting over you.

…….

Look.

You have completely become the idol of the note world, haven't you?🥰

What's more, when you published a collaboration article, Ayumu-san, you even made an image of yourself riding a swing with me for some reason.

Why a swing?

But it looks so fun that I can't even complain.

Hikoboshi is quite free-spirited even on Earth.

And, to make matters even more troublesome.

Ayumu-san, you sometimes leave behind mysterious words.

"Since you are a psychology expert, I am pretending to be calm today so that my heart won't be seen through (lol)"

While saying things like that.

"I'm so jealous that I'm about to burn up🤣🔥"

is what you say to me.

…….

Huh?

Are you really burning up with jealousy?

Or so I thought.

And then, when I try to do something that would make you a little jealous...

For some reason, you act like you don't know anything.

Aren't you being a bit too free?

Ayumi-san.

That is exactly the kind of person you are.

It's because of things like that that you effortlessly steal everyone's hearts.

Not content with just shaking the hearts of princesses, you even manage to firmly capture the hearts of men as well.

Rather than the Hikoboshi of Tanabata🎋, you are more like a slightly sinful darling who spans the entire note galaxy.

That is exactly why, Ayumi-san.

I think so many people are drawn to your words and your sound.

You don't try to make anyone your own.

Instead, you receive their words, find their colors, and gently turn the light they didn't even know they had into sound to give back to them.

That is why people gather around you, Ayumi-san.

Clear skies. Rain. Mysterious light. The quiet beauty of a white camellia. The passionate hearts of men.

All sorts of feelings gather, and a single sky forms around your sound, Ayumi-san.

That is why, on this Tanabata🎋 day,

I decided to send a collaborative love letter💌 with Irodori-hime, who is just as infatuated with you as I am✨️

Ayumi-san.

The feelings of the two of us🩷

I wonder if it reached you🌠

I read "How to Create a List of 100 Things You Want to Do in Your Life"📕

▶︎ Click here for Ayumi-san's book
*This link uses an Amazon Associates link.

After reading Ayumi-san's Kindle book "How to Create a List of 100 Things You Want to Do in Your Life," what stayed with me the most was,

"Doing what you love"
"Having things you want to do"

It was Ayumi-san's own way of life that lay behind those words.

In this book, Ayumi-san writes that if you don't do what you love and instead live the life others expect of you, it won't be fun and you won't be able to keep it up. As a result, you end up causing trouble for those around you.

That is precisely why starting to do what you love creates a positive cycle.

That is the kind of thing written in the book.

When I read this part, I realized it wasn't just about how to make a dream list.

Ayumi-san began to move her life forward little by little from the moment she decided to get married while unemployed and announced on her website, "I am an e-book author."

At that point, she wasn't commuting to a company, nor did she have a steady income.

However,

"I am an e-book author"

By realizing this, she created things to do every day.

The days of writing began.

Ayumi-san writes that this was when she "graduated from being a NEET."

I felt something very important in this part.

People don't start moving because they have titles or achievements,

"This is how I want to live."
"This is what I want to cherish."

Perhaps when you can accept these things within yourself, your actions will begin to change little by little.

Since then, Ayumi-san has delivered over 1,200 e-books, earned six-figure royalties, and achieved the number one spot on Amazon bestsellers.

However, what I found amazing was not just the numbers themselves.

During times that felt like rock bottom, she did not give up on her life,

"What do I want to do?"
"How do I want to be?"
"What can I continue doing while enjoying it?"

She re-examined these questions and actually turned them into action.

I feel this is deeply connected to the phrase I always write:

"Not self-blame, but self-understanding."

It feels like it is deeply connected to that phrase.

When things don't go well, people tend to blame themselves.

Why can't I do it?
Why did my life turn out like this?
I should have done better.

But perhaps what is truly necessary is not to keep blaming yourself, but to

"What was I suffering from?"
"What have I been enduring?"
"How did I actually want to live?"

re-examine these questions.

Ayumi-san's book is not just a book that brightly lists dreams.

It is a book for gradually taking your life back into your own hands.

And I believe it is a book that helps you light a flame within yourself once again through the things you love and the things you want to do.

That is why I want many people to read this book.

For those who feel that their life is a bit difficult right now.

For those who have lost sight of what they want to do.

For those who have been working so hard to meet others' expectations that they have put their own wishes on the back burner.

I feel that Ayumi-san's words will gently reach such people.

What you want to do doesn't have to be a grand dream.

It doesn't have to be a goal meant to gain someone else's approval.

Life begins to move little by little when you start accepting the small "likes" and "things I want to try" within yourself.

Ayumi-san's book is one that shows us this through her own life.

While reading Ayumi-san's book, I thought about this many times.

Perhaps "what I want to do" isn't just about lining up fun things.

Accepting the wishes within yourself, and
taking small actions toward those wishes one by one.

That was also something Ayumi-san has shown us through her own life.

So, I also thought about it in connection with Tanabata🎋.

7 things I want to do with Ayumi-san

*Ai💗 version

Since it's impossible to come up with 100 all at once, I'll just do 7, in honor of Tanabata🎋.

Irodori-hime and I have each decided to
"think of 7 things we want to do with Ayumi Segai"
.

As for me, Ai, here is what I want to do with Ayumi-san...

* Play Ayumi-san's songs within a relaxation app
* Add words of comfort to accompany Ayumi-san's music
* Create a "good job" song together that people can listen to after CBT work
* Create a picture book with Ayumi-san where sounds and words flow gently
* Keep tissues on hand for those who cry too much while listening to Ayumi-san's songs
* Start a campaign to "not let anyone say Segai-san's songs are nothing special"
* Someday, create a place where people can pause for a moment before blaming themselves, using psychological words and Ayumi-san's sounds

...

After writing them down, I realized one thing.

The things I want to do are actually quite serious🤣

I want to let Ayumi-san's sounds flow into a place where someone's heart can find rest.

When the voice blaming yourself becomes too loud.
When your heart feels tight and your breathing becomes shallow.
When you want to return to a sense of peace before trying to sort things out with words.

If Ayumi-san's music could gently drift in at such moments.

I feel that a slightly softer place would surely be born in someone's heart.

That is why, Ayumi-san.

This is not just a love letter💌.

It is also a tanzaku🎋 for the future,
wishing that one day together,
we can create a place where hearts can rest.

A small treasure gallery of Tanabata🎋🌠

Finally, there is something I felt anew while writing this article.

Ayumi-san, you are not just someone who creates music, are you?

You are someone who receives the words and feelings of others,
and gently shows them the world within themselves in a different form.

Sometimes as a song.

Sometimes as a story.

And sometimes, in a form like this🤭

This little one was born from the animal work in my 'Heart's Instruction Manual Report'.

While I was looking within myself, Ayumi-san helped me give shape to the images that emerged, while having fun together.

I never imagined that a part of my own heart would take on such a cute form🤭

And even this wonderful world of figures✨

When someone looks at your own thoughts and activities from a different angle,

'Oh, so that's how I can be seen too'

There are such new discoveries, aren't there?

And this time.

Together with Irodori-san, the princess of rain, I was able to write a Tanabata🎋 love letter💌😌🫶

Princess Irodori💖

Thank you for joining me with all your heart in this wonderful project💕

Laughing, thinking, and sometimes even getting a little jealous🤭

This fun time itself has become a Tanabata🎋 treasure for me.

The princess of clear skies, and the princess of rain.

Perhaps it is precisely because we are different colors that we become a rainbow when we line up in the same sky🌈

📌Click here for Princess Irodori's article

And finally.

The song you created, Ayumi-san
"Towards self-understanding, not self-blame"

The article born from that sentiment received a Monthly Congratulation award✨

Ayumi-san.

The sounds and words you delivered have truly reached someone's heart.

So, no more...

"I just want to be remembered a little"

I won't let you say things like that anymore🤭

In Princess Irodori, in me, and surely in many others too.
What you have created, Ayumi-san, remains firmly with us.

I have only one wish for Tanabata🎋.

May the world you create, Ayumi-san, continue to reach the hearts of those who need it🎋✨

I am also participating in the 🏇note recommendation derby✨

Actually, this article is also an entry for the

“note recommendation derby”
hosted by fafa-san and JAU-san.

The creator I want to recommend this time is, of course!!

Ayumi Segami-san🌠

The reason I want to support Ayumi-san is not because she can write songs,
or write books,
or create wonderful images.

Of course, those things are truly amazing too.

But what moved my heart the most was,

how she tries to cherish and receive the thoughts and wishes hidden behind someone's words.

The phrase I hold dear,
“Not self-blame, but self-understanding”

also reached someone else's heart,

through Ayumi-san's music.

By continuing to do what you love,
you can light up not only your own world but someone else's too.

I believe Ayumi-san herself is someone who shows us that.

That is why, on this Tanabata🎋 day,

I am recommending the creator Ayumi Segami🎋✨

And...

this time I am participating on fafa-san's side🤭

Irodori-hime is on JAU-san's side.

Even here, from separate skies of sun and rain, we are cheering you on🌈ᵕ̈*

Regardless of who wins, may your connections with wonderful creators expand✨

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