Thank you for opposing me, Mom

I'll be honest.
Ever since I can remember, I disliked my mother.


No matter what I did, she wouldn't acknowledge me.

If I helped in the kitchen,

"Geez, you're too slow... forget it, let me do it!"

she would take over what I was trying to help with.

When I wrote my first song in elementary school,

"What is this? I can't tell the time signature, and the melody is weird."

My friend who became a professional before me was told by her mother,

"Aren't you a genius? Amazing, amazing!"or so she said.

It's completely different from my mother...


When I said I would make a living through music,

"Living off music... you can't live on thin air."
"No way!"

I thought, "That makes me so mad!" but
thinking about it now, that might have been my 'driving force'.

If I were pampered, I would get bored or
"Well, whatever..."is what I would become.

"Just you wait. I'll show you!!"with that feeling,
I overcame everything, won awards with amateur bands,
and later became a professional jazz singer.

When I invited my mother to see me sing on a big stage, wanting to show her,
she said,

"The path of music is a back-alley job compared to the rest of the world.
My job as a nurse was like that too.
Can you make a living?"

"Yeah! Because this is all I can do."

"Do your best."

Huh!? I was happy... or rather, surprised.


And then, when I was getting a divorce and returned to my parents' home in Sendai with my children to prepare for it,


"Even with children, to get a divorce, you are not human."
to my father who was angry,


"Since it's a time like this, your parents' home is where you accept them, right? Father."
My mother said that.
She was totally on my side.

And


"If you're going to divorce and raise children, you must absolutely support them with music!"
she told me.
I cry when I remember it...

She criticized and opposed me because she was worried about me.
Because she truly cared about me.


When I, already a mother of two, suddenly said,


"Come to think of it, I was bullied in junior high school."
she said,


"Who? Who bullied Sae-chan!?"
My mother said that.
Oh, it makes me cry...

My mother developed dementia a few years ago.
She is so cute.

She entered a facility with my father, but every time I go to see her,
she welcomes me with a huge smile.

From now on, I will be your biggest supporter.


Thank youThank you
Thank you



For you, and for me,people who criticize and oppose us
are either great allies
or people who give us awareness.

Let's be grateful for everything again today ❤️


The [Top Artist Contest] I am challenging
has a deadline today, 2/28 at 23:59.

To everyone who voted,
thank you!!

If you could share it with your friends,
I would be very happy.
Thank you for your support.

🔻 Vote here (40. Saeri)

https://x.gd/Rcdgi

＊Today 2/28 23:59is the deadline!!