Connections with others, starting from expressing what you love

Recently, I have come to want to cherish connections with people more than ever before.

The reason for this might lie in my childhood experiences.

My parents were busy with work, and I often spent my nights alone, crying.

That is why, when I got married, I strongly felt that I wanted to live in a housing complex.

Exchanging greetings naturally with neighbors,
children playing together.

I had always longed for such casual, warm connections.
It will soon be 16 years

since I started my current job.
I have noticed something while meeting many customers.

“I really want to say it, but I can't.”

There are so many people

who are carrying such feelings all by themselves.
The more you keep things bottled up inside,

the greater the loneliness and pain become.
On the other hand, I have seen many times how, by gathering just a little courage to express their feelings, relationships between couples or in the workplace have changed for the better.

Of course, not everything goes well just because you express yourself.
Even so,



a small step of “let's try saying it” can sometimes lead to a new future. I once had a customer like this. They had been invited to dinner many times,

but they had kept refusing.

Then, from a certain day on, no one invited them anymore.
“I'm lonely...” “It's painful.”

They told me this, speaking softly.

When the person doing the inviting is refused many times, they start to think, “Maybe I'm being a nuisance.”

But,



“I can't go today, but please invite me again.”

If they had said that one phrase, the future might have been different.


Expressing your feelings to others,

and expressing what you “love,”
I believe, is also a way of expressing your true self.

Recently, I have become able to enjoy fashion. “I love this outfit.”

“I love this color.”

I am very happy that I can honestly express such small things that I “love.”

When I saw everyone shining in their own way in a certain community,

I felt once again that it is okay not to be the same as someone else,

and that it is okay to cherish the things I “love.”
Time alone is important.
But, trying to express your feelings and


what you “love”

just a little bit. Perhaps that alone makes the distance between people a little more comfortable. That is why I love the town of note.



Writing articles is a time for me to face myself. “This is what I think.”

“This is what I love.”
When I put such feelings into words,

mysteriously, my heart feels settled.

And then, I meet people who empathize with those words, exchange comments,

and new connections are born.


Perhaps I am now gradually cultivating on note the warm connections I longed for as a child.


From now on, while weaving words in my own way, I want to cherish connections where we can be comfortable with each other, neither too close nor too far.

Thank you for reading until the end.🙇‍♀️

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