A blessed year
Ono Karori
There are only two days left in 2024.
Utsushiki's business for the year ended successfully yesterday, December 29th.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who has been involved this year.
We will be opening our store on Saturday, January 4th, so we hope you will come and see us to wish us a happy new year.
As I look back on the past year, all the things I want to do in the future are running around in my head.
I'd like to make one last push after finishing work, and once I've finished sending and returning the items online and have things settled down, I'd like to think about it slowly.
However, things don't always go as planned.
The kids are already on winter break, and it feels like the new year will be here before we know it ^^
This past year, I felt like I had a really strong sense of not accomplishing anything.
I can't continue with the things I started last year, it's not fun, I just don't feel like it
I get angry when my child wakes up even though I've woken up so early in the morning.
I spent the past year wondering whether it was something I was forcing myself to do, or whether it was something I really wanted to do in the first place.
The days when I was feeling unwell, which I mentioned in my diary the other day,
I felt like I had been dealt the finishing blow and I had fallen to a state where I didn't want to do anything anymore.
Thanks to that, it was as if my vision had suddenly cleared and I was finally able to see what I wanted to believe in.
Recently, children have had the experience of being able to do things that they couldn't do before.
My second son, who was not able to do a back flip, practiced and was able to do it.
"Ah, it's like I've been reborn!" I thought to myself over and over again, savoring the emotion.
My eldest daughter, who couldn't ride a bike before, said, "Wow, I can really learn to ride a bike now. I want to go to lots of different places."
It seems like their world has expanded.
I accomplished something big when I became an adult!
This experience may be less common now than it was when we were children.
But in reality, there may be many successful experiences that we are just overlooking.
My child will tell me over and over again how much he has accomplished.
We don't tell people much...
At the very least, I think it's okay to praise myself, praise myself, be moved, and enjoy the afterglow.
I began to think this way when I was faced with such honest joy.
A very very small thing.
For example, today's stew turned out well, but today I was able to do yoga more freely than yesterday.
I want to appreciate small successes and give myself a round of applause every day.
Yes, that's how we'll spend next year.
I felt like it was a year where I "didn't accomplish anything."
There was something I gained from stopping.
Of course I'm happy when something is convenient for me.
But I think that everything that's happening is a blessing.
It's hard to think that way, but this was the year that I came to believe that it was true.
What did you all think?
Let's celebrate this wonderful year and have a happy new year.
