■今日は新沼津カントリークラブ A クラス大西杯でした。私は競技委員としてお手伝いをしました。台風一過、青空の下で気温も30°近くまで上昇し暑いほどでした。74名の方が参加され力を競いました。
私も出場選手が全てスタートした後で競技委員としてコースを視察させていただきました。 午前中は風も強く向かい風のこともあれば追い風のこともありました。良いショットと悪いショットが混在して安定しなくて本当に参りました。これでは自分自身が競技に選手として出場する、来週の B クラスの月例では、成績はとても望むべくもありません。
Today’s picture is of a watermelon that Taku gave me when I drove my new Subaru Impreza to Takasaki the other day. He remembered that eating a watermelon after a morning run is the best part of the day for me. When Taku went on a family vacation, he bought it for me. Afterwards, I ate it cold and it was the most delicious watermelon I’ve ever tasted.
Today, I came back from golf and I ate the chilled watermelon my friend gave me to help with my dehydration. I shared the watermelon with Sun at that time, and she told me a surprising story.
It was when Taku was still little. When he ate a manjuu, Taku didn’t keep it to himself; he would break it in half and share it with his mother. What’s even more amazing is that he always gave the bigger portion of the manju to his mother. I was truly amazed at this story. It’s not an easy thing for a human being to do.
Sun told me that I had done it to Taku, so Taku must have done it to his mother. But I honestly don’t remember that at all. Sun says my grandson, Masato, will be like that too, and I think it’s amazing.
Some people might not think it’s a big deal, but I think it’s a big deal. Human greed is infinite. The late Kokontei Shincho used to say the following willow in his rakugo pillow.
The more the snow falls, the more it piles up, the more greedy he is , the road is forgotten.
That’s exactly what it is. Human greed is truly a terrible thing. When you watch the TV movie “Columbo”, all the criminals in the movie are people of high social status. It seems to me that they have had enough, but they want to have more.
The rich people of the world are always thinking the same thing: “I want to be richer. I want to be richer.
That’s why, as a father, I’m so happy to hear that Taku used to break the manjuu in half and give it to his mother instead of keeping it all to himself, and that he would always give the bigger portion to her.
Hearing that story today, I was immersed in a feeling of happiness from the bottom of my heart.