The Wonder of Snow

Happy new year

It's going to be very cold this year over the New Year holidays.

Here in Fukuoka Prefecture, where we live, a tremendous amount of snow has been falling over the past few days.

Utsushiki has also not been able to open since closing its store early on its first business day of the year.

I'm sorry to those who had plans to attend...

However, even though the roads are frozen, there are water outages, and I've even heard reports of trucks overturned on national highways, meaning that I can't do anything I had planned, I still feel happy about the snow. Is this because I was born and raised in Kyushu?

This wintery scene fills me with joy and gratitude.

Each and every crystal is white, quiet, and unconditionally reflective of its brightness out into the world.

During the never ending cloudy winter, everything you see seems to get a whole lot warmer.

It is in no way comparable to the phenomena of nature.

All living creatures that breathe on Earth are essentially powerless to compete, and all they can do is adapt and coexist.

But now I think about it.

Symbiosis required a high level of intelligence on the part of the organism.

My power has influence. Or maybe this much is okay.

If such small mistakes pile up like snow, we will reach a point today where there is nothing we as humans can do.

Still, the world is beautiful.

Whenever I think about this, I feel angry at society and the way humans work, and I tend to feel pessimistic about the many things that remain unchanged.

But at the same time, I also think this.

I realized that for an extremely brief moment in space and on Earth, all living things on this planet are miraculously able to survive.

It is also true that, whether it be global warming or climate change, there are trends moving about on a different dimension and scale from humans who get happy or sad about it.

No matter how far we go, we live in a world full of selfish human desires, but the snow still continues to fall, as if to teach us that the small things that we neglect can pile up and become something beautiful yet irreversible.

The wonder of snow. I hope it will end soon, but when it does, I feel sad to see it end.

Even though they are in trouble, as long as I am at a distance where their lives are not in danger, I still want to love them.

I wonder if it will stop in Fukuoka today or tomorrow?

Thank you for the beautiful view.

Noserumi