Winner Mone Uchida


	―The shadow of an Era― Life

After World War II, Japan was rebuilt on economic power but materialism, efficiency, which became the center of the philosophy, made a society that gives not enough importance to life and spirit.

In Japanese society, we can no longer communicate naturally, and now as self-esteem is built on work capacity and efficiency, there are many people who no longer found themselves in such a scheme and then get sick.

It's hard to imagine that in these times our health can be so degraded by modern life.

Harassed students, who no longer go to school, and remain reclusive, restructuration of companies, the loneliness of the elderly...

The most obvious is your existence. It is the fact that you can breathe here and now. Be yourself.

Accept yourself and love yourself. Love yourself entirely, with your weaknesses. Love you with all your heart. When someone cannot love himself, he cannot love others either and he just see their defects. If unfortunately you have become an adult without receiving enough love when you were a child, from your relatives, from your friends, from your parents...

If you have feeling to be somebody who does not authorize to be oneself, find somebody who is going to allow you to live your existence.

It may be somebody like your landlord, a professor, or your companion in life. The important thing is that this person is well balanced.

Thanks to a friendly point of view, you will be able to know about you and get a feeling of peace in your life.

To stand up, even in adversity.

Of course, it's hard. But the middle of suffering, if you understand that it is a gift for you to grow, and if you can still thank heaven, I think your life will become better and better.