Game-ending homer
"It must be a travel season for graduating student, I guess. By the
way, do they go to travel now a days?" Seeing a photograph of baseball
kids, I thought.
When I was walking at the Central Park in midwinter, I came across the
baseball game by kids on lawn yard. I saw their game for a while. Finally,
it's ended by game-ending home run. Unexpectedly, I shared very impressive
moment with them.
I'm "a son of Japanese bubble economy". I spent student days
in a booming economic period. So usually students got good responses from
several companies early in the 4th grade. And the students chose one from
them by summer vacation. However maybe, I was exception. I didn't have
aggressive personality, and my choice was mass media which was really competitive
category. It meant I could not get any job contract for long time. When
I was picked up by a company was at the beginning of February. (A fiscal
and school year both start from Apr. in Japan) I was told starting the
job from mid March. It meant I had a month extra time. So I decided to
go to my 1st travel to abroad. I traveled around the US for 2 weeks with
camera. "Game-ending homer" is the photo I took in the travel.
The time has changed. Now a days, students live in more tough world. "The
poor don't go to the travel" I even heard such a abusive words when
the air ticket fare soared up. However the poor young is the very person
who should travel. For instance, traveling around with back pack in their
youth and luxury vacance in their middle age have big difference in the
effect to the life or personality. So if you are the person who has enough
curiosity for it, you should travel around the world with flexible personality
of youth.
There is another reason I recommend a travel for the young. I want you
to make sure the things in the world by yourself. It's a really convenient
world. You can get most of the knowledge from Internet. You can read thousands
of thread on the blog. For me, I can't go to the travel without preparation
by Internet. But you shouldn't think you know everything in the world with
it. What peoples are thinking or what's the issue in the world should be
watched and made sure by your eyes and ears.
Through the travel, your essential part is brushed up. The most important
factor to be international person is not speaking foreign language fluently
nor accustoming for traveling the world. "The essential part as a
human is the most important thing. Not a globality but a universality"
"Game-ending homer" told me that. Of course, I was too young
to know it when I photographed it.
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" Game-ending homer " NYC, New York, USA 1989
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