Red Riding Hood & The Wolf

"Little Red Riding Hood" is called Little Red Riding Hood in English. Since Riding Hood refers to a (traditional) riding hood, adding "little" makes it "Little Red Riding Hood." The woman in this music video is an adult, so I removed "little" and used the motif of "Adult Red Riding Hood and the Wolf." The video has a slightly eerie, unsettling atmosphere, reminiscent of Michael Jackson's Thriller.

As an adult woman, Red Riding Hood serves as a symbol of pure, giving love as a Top Giver, finding kindness even in a wolf, observing the hungry wolf while believing in its potential to change, and experiencing the terrifying consequences of such overly pure brotherly love—I hope you enjoy this story through this music video.

Social roles conditioned by the times

"Finding potential even in a wolf" refers to the self-conceit and compassion I felt from my initial intuition when observing others—the idea that I might be able to give and improve the state of starvation or lack in others. I have spent too much time sharing with them, only to be taken for granted, used, and consumed, feeling that I stayed too long in a place where I didn't belong.

For me, human relationships are like scenery flowing past a car window. The people I meet change constantly depending on where I am heading, and for a relationship to last for many years, it must be one where neither side is under significant strain. It requires only a small amount of compassionate human connection: relationships that do not disturb each other's time, do not become a burden, yet where we still care for each other somewhere, can quietly offer good information or exciting things, share wonderful times together, and look forward to meeting. Most human relationships do not last, and that is fine. Because others never change, nor can they be changed; I simply re-evaluate the relationship.

"Finding potential even in a wolf" is also a trauma response from my childhood. Although I believe I have already resolved that pattern, the habit of feeling childhood patterns as familiar scenery and trying to repeat them still remains within me as a remnant in my subconscious.

In other words, it is my bad habit of self-conceit where I try to find meaning in my existence through the expectation that "there is a reason for the wolf's wild behavior," "I might be able to heal the wolf's wounds," "the wolf must surely want to be happy (self-heal)," or "perhaps I can heal others' wounds.".

That might be because, in junior high school, teachers forced me into an unpaid role like a class counselor, telling me, "It's your job to understand and encourage the kid being bullied in class," or "You can heal the kid who was bullied."

There was a time in my chaotic class that would have been truly demonic had I not intervened. A delinquent boy in the class would kick a child with a disability, and that child would cry and rage, rolling on the floor, making it impossible to hold class. Because I attended a cram school, my grades were unaffected even if class was interrupted, so I was always by that child's side, protecting her and simply fulfilling my role at school. However, only mental fatigue accumulated, and there were truly days when it was hard to go to school, but I couldn't take a day off thinking that if I weren't there, she might be kicked by the boys in the class again. Since she would only listen to me, I was always, for many years, the one who calmed the problem children.

That was a social role as if conditioned by the times that the adults around me had been giving me along with my wounds since childhood to form the core of my individual self. It can also be called a generational trauma response where I kept taking on that role because I was told I could do it, even though it wasn't my true self. It means that if I don't work hard to suppress it, I will end up playing that role again in the difficult-to-live-in Japanese society. And I will drift further away from my true individuality. Unless I seal off that trauma response, I cannot return to my true self. I believe that everyone likely carries something similar in different forms.

Adult others are not "child wolves"

However, no matter how kind you are or how much you try to understand others, the other person is no longer a child wolf. They are already a full-grown adult wolf. Adult wolves are aware that they are carnivores themselves. Adult wolves prey on others for their own sake. Adult wolves even take pride in being carnivores. Adult wolves, as a result of wishing to become that way themselves, have such sharp eyes and have chosen for themselves a way of life that makes others tremble. Here, the adult Red Riding Hood ends up having an experience that forces her to finally discard the overly sweet idea that "the wolf's heart is wild because there must be unhealed wounds; I might be able to turn those wounds into love." And by the time she leaves the forest, she sheds her red hood, stands on her own in her mud-stained red dress from falling in the forest, and returns to her own path as an independent adult woman who is complete on her own. The music video is based on that image.

In the second half of life, do not get involved in the karma of others

In the past, human relationships might have been purely about helping each other. However, while surviving in society, roles gradually become fixed. Some people become fixed by using others. Others become fixed on the side of being used. And people who use others gather around those who use. Those on the side of being used form their own human relationships, and when someone who uses approaches, they consult with each other, view the user as a danger, and exclude them from their relationships. And similar people gather to form groups.

People do not want to be around those who harm them. That is what it means to not be able to understand each other.

From the perspective of the user, they get irritated with others for selfish reasons, wondering why the other person won't simply do as they are told. From the perspective of the one being used, they cannot understand why they alone must unilaterally provide infinite forgiveness and understanding to the other. Since what you offer each other is different, it means that the form of compassion differs from person to person, and because "what others project outward is merely the lack within themselves", when others get involved and intervene, it only leads to extreme confusion. This is because others are desperate to resolve their own lack through other people.

Ideally, everyone should fight their own shadows and reach a state of "filling and organizing oneself." That is what adult human relationships are. This is the state of self-integration as described by psychologist Carl Jung. There are many related videos about Carl Jung on YouTube, so if you are interested, watching them will help you draw a line between others' emotions and your own, so you will no longer mistake others' problems for your own.

Instead of entangling due to lack, interact with others correctly while in a state of self-fulfillment, where you are you, I am me, in an independent state, respecting that, and not depending more than necessary will be the correct way for human relationships in the second half of life.

This slightly scary "Red Riding Hood & The Wolf" will be released on Friday, May 22nd at 10 PM, and I will post the link below↓↓↓ Look forward to it🎧💘♫🐺💘🐺♫💘🎧