Days When You Can't Get a Single Failure Out of Your Head [A Short Story Collection to Lighten Your Heart]: Episode 15

I felt like I was doing the same thing again.

In the evening, my daughter was sitting at her desk.
She had her notebook open and was solving problems.

After a while, I heard a sigh.
Then, her pen stopped.

The moment I saw that, the past came to mind.

[The Moment You Get Pulled Into the Past]

It was the same last time, too.
She stopped in the middle, and it ended up taking a long time.

That memory overlapped perfectly with the present.

"Are you stuck again?"

I started to say that, but stopped for a moment.

I was a little curious if it was really the same.

[What I Was Remembering]

What remained in my head were the times things didn't go well.

The days it took a long time.
The days things didn't progress smoothly.

Those impressions remained strong.

But there must have been other days, too.

Days that finished normally.
Days that went smoothly.

I couldn't really remember those.

[The Mechanism That Became Clear]

It seems that the more impactful an event is, the easier it is for people to remember it.
Especially things that didn't go well are easy to keep in memory.

As a result, I feel like it's always like that.
I was viewing a single failure as if it were something happening all the time.

[Looking at the Present]

I look at my daughter.
She is indeed stopped. But she had been making progress until just a moment ago.

There are traces of her writing in the notebook.

She has come part of the way.

It's not necessarily the same as before.
When I could think that, my perspective changed just a little.

[Today's Exercise]
Don't judge based only on the memories that come to mind.

If you think, "It's always like this," try to recall one other situation.

I changed how I said things just a little.

"You were making progress earlier, weren't you?"

My daughter looked up a little and replied, "Yeah, I'm just thinking for a bit."

After that, her pen started moving again.
It was a more natural flow than before.

When you are pulled by memories, the present becomes distorted. If you look at the present, it unravels.

Today, I truly felt that.

[Information]
Sometimes we get pulled by impressions from the past, don't we?

Just by re-examining the present, the way you see things can change.

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