Holding it in my heart—the dream that closed on its opening day
I am participating in Yoshihiro-san's 1,000 follower commemorative project with feelings of celebration! 🥂
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The theme is 'Dream'
My childhood dream of
"one day."
It is a nostalgic, funny story now, but in my heart, it might have been
an unexpectedly important "dream".
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I have a sister five years older than me.
Before I started elementary school,
my sister was in the upper grades.
Sometimes, my sister would open a cafe with her friends
in her own room.
Its name was
'Petit Lyric.'
A Western-style room with a skylight,
a table covered with a cute cloth.
European cups and saucers.
Romantic snack plates.
Even if it was just "pretend," there, to my young self at the time,
the very world of "a stylish older sister" was unfolding.
Basically, I was a bit of a geeky child who liked to play quietly by myself,
but I really wanted to go to that "Petit Lyric" held in the next room.
But, a little sister five years younger is annoying, right? Haha.
My sister reluctantly invited me once,
but I couldn't join the group.
That's when I thought,
—That's it, I'll open my own shop!
(With the same energy as "That's it, let's go to Kyoto.")
However, I couldn't just copy my sister.
There was a producer's spirit in me, even as a child.
My sister's room was Western-style.
But my room was a stoic Japanese-style room.
Japanese-style...
Japanese...
Rice balls!!
With that flow,
my shop was decided to be a "rice ball shop."
The supplier of the products was,
of course, my mother.
While rushing my mother who was standing in the kitchen,
I think I was a rather demanding shopkeeper,
saying things like, "Add pickles too!"
I couldn't quite reach the elegance of wrapping them in bamboo leaves,
but I set them with barley tea to compete with the black tea...
and somehow the products were completed.
And, for some reason,
I had no hesitation about the shop name.
"Magokoro" (Sincere Heart)
Thinking about it now, it's quite direct. Haha.
But strangely,
ever since I was a child,
I have loved the word "sincerity" (magokoro).
I don't remember who taught it to me,
or why I was drawn to it.
However,
deep in my chest,
that word felt like a "small ball of light"
that had always lived there. I feel that way.
Well,
as someone who was extremely shy,
I finally prepared myself and opened the rice ball shop "Magokoro" (Sincerity), but...
Lacking the marketing skills
to capture the hearts of trendy girls,
and without a branding strategy—
"Rice ball shop Magokoro,
now open for business!"
My voice echoed emptily through the Japanese-style room,
and on its very first day, it closed. lol
In the end,
while half-crying,
I ate rice balls with my mother in the living room.
° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
But,
I think about it now.
What I really wanted to do back then
might not have been to sell rice balls,“but to welcome people
with sincerity.”
A small dream may not have been fulfilled in its original form,
but its core continues to live on
within me——
It islike underground water, flowing quietly at the bottom of life,
and someday it will spring up to the surface
in a different form.
I am not a rice ball shop owner now,
but in my work and in my daily life,
what lies at my foundation is still,
that clumsy "sincerity"
from that day.
Today, too,
I am gently holding it in my heart.
but it comes with pickles and barley tea⭐︎◡̈⭐︎🍵
enyo*
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Yoshihiro-san, thank you for the fun project♪
I would be happy if those who read this felt a little warmed inside.🍙💕
[Postscript]
Wow!
I received an award and a tip for this project🙌
Award for Amazing Initiative🏆
Yoshihiro-san's "sincerity"
I gratefully accept it💖✨
~~~☆*:.｡. Special Thanks .｡.:*☆~~~
Thank you for adding it to your magazine
The "sincerity" that ended as a phantom has been rewarded🌈
🌷With deepest gratitude🌷
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