"If you could start over at any point in your life, when would you like to go back to?"
I thought for a moment.
No matter what life is like, I think we all have regrets, more or less.
I feel like even respectable people wonder why they did that at the time.
It might be different for Shohei Ohtani.
But even Shohei Ohtani has probably had the experience of riding his bike down a dark road at night and suddenly remembering a mistake he made in the past, causing him to yell loudly and stand up and pedal away.
Isn't there?
But what I thought at that time was...
Isn't it amazing that a young person would ask an older man, "If you could do it over again?"
He said he was going to start work this spring and move to Tokyo. Perhaps he wanted to learn about the old man's regrets and be careful not to make the same mistakes in the future.
I'm sure he is now at a stage where he is thinking seriously about his life as he prepares to enter society. That's impressive. He's mature.
When I was young, I had no interest in the things that older men thought were wrong. I was so preoccupied with my own problems that I never even thought of using the scars of older men as a lesson for myself.
The phrase "How many weeks in your life?" has become popular on social media, and the loop-structured worldview of the TV drama "Brush Up Life" has become a hot topic, and I thought that things like that might be having an influence on young people.
Nowadays, I think there are many people who can look at life from a bird's eye view and properly recognize where they are in life.
When I was in college, I could only see about 50 centimeters in front of me.
And I answered the question, "When do you want to go back?" like this:
"It's time to graduate from college."
I was stupid. I didn't realize that being a freshman is a once in a lifetime experience and is a wonderful and valuable thing for students.
If I had truly understood the value of this when I was looking for a job, I might have chosen a more reasonable path.
However, at that time, I was having so much fun working part-time on radio that I couldn't help but see what was about 50 centimeters in front of me, so I completely forgot about job hunting and went from being a student AD to being a part-time AD.
And I continued to choose the fun things in front of me, and I ended up at a restaurant, and here I am today. As a result, I still stand on my bike and yell, "Why did I say that?" But I think that's all part of the fun.
It seems that I have grown into my fifties without ever acquiring the skill to look at life from a bird's-eye view.
It doesn't quite come together well though.
Young people.
Here is a sample of what your life might look like if you keep doing what you want to do.
