[Correspondence] Tom Cruise doesn't fade, but about the 'end' that will come someday

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wakka → Kanazawa-san

Hello, Kanazawa-san!

Are you enjoying your summer vacation?
You mentioned you were going to visit friends, ride a ferry, and go back to your hometown.
I'm envious of all those plans that are just so 'summer-like'.

I didn't want to just sit around the house saying 'it's too hot,' so I wanted to do something summery too.
As luck would have it, my husband started his summer vacation this week, so we went to see a movie and visited a day-trip hot spring.

The movie was 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'.
Watching a movie at the theater is really fun, isn't it?
Don't you think that watching a movie in a dark, cool, and exciting theater suits summer perfectly?
With the thrill and suspense of the story combined with the power of the visuals and sound, the 2 hours and 49 minutes of runtime felt like it flew by.

Tom Cruise was wonderful when he was young, but I think he has a really charming and great face now that he's older.
And even as he ages, his action scenes haven't faded at all.

This week, I have plans to go eat eel, visit a grave, and visit relatives.
Summer is not over yet.

By the way, in your last letter, you mentioned that when you were a child, you were afraid of 'the fact that you would one day disappear from this world'.
I found this part very interesting.
The reason is that it was the exact opposite for me.

When I was a child, I was so worried about someone other than myself—like my parents or my sister—disappearing from this world one day that I couldn't sleep at night.
Until I read your letter, I had never even thought about the fact that I would disappear from this world...
It was quite a shock, thinking, 'Oh, so that's another way of looking at it!'

Thinking about it now, even as an adult, I'm not really that afraid of disappearing from this world myself.
I just think, 'No matter how hard I try, eventually, with time...'
More than that, the thought of the people I love disappearing is terrifying enough to give me goosebumps.
It's fun to see each other's personalities and ways of thinking through this correspondence.

In any case, I hope we both take care of our health, enjoy life to the fullest, do everything we want to do, and live by doing our best in everything we can.

I believe that 'enjoying life to the fullest' includes 'doing things carefully'.
What do you think, Kanazawa-san?

For example, this is a story from when I used to knit as a hobby.
I wanted to finish the piece quickly, so I skimped on sleep and meals to knit.
The piece was finished quickly, but it wasn't something I actually wanted to wear.
I realized later that what I was doing was just 'work,' not 'enjoying knitting'.
If I had enjoyed the time spent knitting carefully and slowly to the fullest, I think I could have created a piece I would have loved and wanted to wear.

If this were 'work,' it might be difficult because of deadlines.
However, my belief is that 'doing things carefully' is essential to enjoying everything to the fullest.

This has become long, so I'll end this letter here.
If you'd like, please tell me what you keep in mind when you work, Kanazawa-san.
I'm looking forward to your reply.

wakka

This is a 'correspondence' between 'Web Writer wakka' and 'Guide to Readable Notes | Miwa Kanazawa'.