人は変化より不変を、未知より既知を好む

2024.3.20

先日娘の中学校で「生き方あり方」というお題でお話しさせていただいた。昨日、中学校より生徒の方々の感想文をいただいた。かなり色々とメモをしてたり、感想を書いてくれた子も。

残念ながら、人の話で人生が変わることは稀で、自己啓発本や他人のアドバイスだけでは人生は、滅多に変わらない。ただ、今回の時間が、少しでも何かこれからの人生を考えるきっかけになってくれたのであれば嬉しい。

今回、自分自身も改めて「生き方あり方」を考えてさせていただく大切な時間をいただけたので、皆さんが未来に進むように自分も未知の未来に向かって進んでいこう。

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People prefer constancy to change, and the known to the unknown.
I recently gave a talk at my daughter’s junior high school on how to live and be. Yesterday I received written impressions from the students at the junior high school. Some of the children wrote quite a lot of notes and impressions.

Unfortunately, self-help books and advice from others rarely change lives. But I would be happy if it gave them something to think about for the rest of their lives.

This time I also was able to spend some important time thinking about ‘how to live’ again. As the students move forward into the future, I will move forward into an unknown future.