When a child in front of you is about to make a mistake

Last week, on my way back from Ghibli Park in Nagakute City, Aichi Prefecture.

While I was waiting in the non-reserved seat line for the Nozomi Shinkansen bound for Tokyo at Nagoya Station, a girl who looked to be in the upper grades of elementary school, wearing a hat and carrying a brown backpack, approached quickly.

I couldn't see anyone who looked like a parent nearby.
Is she traveling somewhere on the Shinkansen all by herself? That's unusual.

The girl stopped right next to me, who was at the front of the line.

......Hmm?? Wait a minute??
She's not going to line up at the back of the queue???

While I was bewildered, the Shinkansen I was planning to board pulled into the platform, and passengers arriving from the Osaka direction began to get off one after another.

The girl didn't move an inch from where she was.

Could it be that this girl...
Is she trying to board the Shinkansen by cutting in line instead of waiting at the back???

Unable to just watch, I finally spoke to the girl.

"Hey, if you're going to ride, you have to line up at the back of the queue..."

Before I had even finished speaking, the girl quickly ran off toward the back of the line.

After this series of events, I thought to myself.

"I... have evolved!!"

Because I am afraid of being picked on by weird people (especially men),

even if I get bumped into on the platform,
have my feet stepped on inside the train,
have the person sitting next to me lean heavily against me,
or get harassed near the priority seats with someone saying, 'What are you doing on your phone?',

I have always just endured it in silence, with the sole desire of 'not wanting to get involved in any trouble,' but...

When the other person is a child, it is a different story.

It is not that I am looking down on children at all, but I felt that if a child in front of me was about to make a mistake, I, as an adult, had to properly guide them.

I could have just looked the other way, butwhen I thought, 'It is the role of adults to teach and guide children who have not yet fully developed a sense of right and wrong,'I could not just leave it alone.

Man, I hate to say it myself, but I did a good thing! 😊

Thinking about it now, that girl is also impressive for riding the Shinkansen all by herself at such a young age.
I, for one, never rode the Shinkansen alone when I was a child...

But, you have to follow the rules properly!

I don't have any parenting experience, but I decided that I will continue to watch over the children I see to the best of my ability. ✨