✜The Best Thank You✤

Week 14 Topic

"What was your happiest moment as a child?"

When I was a child,
together with the neighborhood kids,
we would run around the neighborhood freely,
and play in the park with just the neighborhood kids until curfew.

Parents back then were generous, weren't they?
We didn't have any of those
monitoring devices that kids have today,
and there were no parents watching over us in the park either.
It's unthinkable now, isn't it?

While remembering such a free childhood,

now, for this week's topic,"The happiest moment of my childhood".

My mother was a full-time housewife,
but because my father would bring guests home to eat and drink almost every night,
my mother was always busy shopping, cooking, preparing drinks, and entertaining the guests.

You might think,
since they were doing things like this, they must have been wealthy,
but our living situation was actually very difficult.
We even received many food items like vegetables sent from my maternal grandparents who lived far away.

Even so, I could feel as a child
that my mother was doing her best to entertain the guests
so that they would be happy.

Wanting to help my mother, who was busy every day, even a little bit,
when I would help out, even though I was clumsy,
"Thank you, that was a big help," she would say.
I remember how very happy that made me.

The way to convey sincere feelings that I had almost forgotten,
thanks to this week's topic,
I was able to remember it.

Ken Honda-sensei,
thanks to the Happy Writing Marathon,
I was able to write about myself.
And I was able to encounter the works of many people.

Works that were very captivating, works with content that drew me in, works I could empathize with.

Reading them makes me feel happy myself.

I felt once again that the power of writing is amazing.

And it made me want to study more and more.


☆☆Thank you very much☆☆