Abby sent me mails and she was saying in it that everything was going well after some unhappy days.. My anxiety has vanished. No letters means no problem, they say. Abby is talented and works hard, and she can find her right way. It's good and lucky. But when I look around me, I find many young people who cannot work happily. Some of my friends have sons who can't find jobs, and some others have daughters who work too hard and whose mothers (my friends) are worrying about their health. Like other places, there are many bankrupted factories and fired workers also in this area. My son's wife is trying to find some part time job and visiting the job office every week, but she can't get any jobs till now. Five, six, sometimes ten people rush for one seat, she said.
As you know, many people are suffering terrible working conditions these days. TV said the condition in Korea is worse than in Japan .How about in the US or in the other countries? Who is benefited by this ? How can we handle this ?
We are now preparing an event for peace in this summer. More and more people who know the World War II and can tell us about it are passing year by year. And when economy is bad, people easily go into wars, our history tells us. And, poverty is a kind of violence, I feel. But I'm finding a hope in the fact that many people from many different groups are getting together for the event.
Oh, several weeks have passed since I wrote the line above. I didn't remember I had started the essay. It's the season of fireflies now, but they will disappear in some days. Fireflies live only by clear waters, they say. I hope there will be more places they can fly. If you want to see them, come to the river running beside Mochizuki JHS around 8:00 in the evening very soon.
