お盆
お盆の行事は宗教行事なれど、日本全国お盆である。
日本は無宗教国と云われる事もあるが、お彼岸やお盆の時期になると、猫も杓子も仏教徒に変身、仏教国となる。
そこで我が社も毎年の事ながら、盆を挟んで前段、後段に別れ夏休み（５連休）に入る。ところが企業は近年、徐々にお盆という概念が薄れてきているようで、通常勤務のところが多く、仕事は普通に入ってくる。有り難い事ではあるが、実は納期に間に合わせるのが大変で、休みが休みでなくなる社員も出てくる・・・・。
小生は、毎年お盆の３・４日間は故郷、隠岐の島に帰る事にしているが、今年は娘の仕事の都合もあり、土、日、月の３日間となり、お盆の１３日に故郷を離れなければならない。
これも昔だと考えられない行為。両親が健在ならば絶対にそんな事は許してくれなかっただろうと思う。実は私の頭の中にもその感覚は強くあり、結構な抵抗はあるが、周りの人に聞けば、「まー別にいいんじゃない・・・」くらいの割りに気軽な答が返ってくる。すると、何となく小生も、「まーいいか？」。
元来がご都合主義のいい加減なところがあり、勝手ないい訳を考えて、都合よく処理してしまう。と云う事で３日間、小生は隠岐の島に帰るのだ・・・嬉しいな・・♪♪うれしいな・・♪♪。
Obon is a religious event, but it’s a nationwide Obon event in Japan.
Japan is sometimes said to be a non-religious country, but at the time of the Oshogans and Obon (Bon Festival), both cats and ladders are transformed into Buddhists and become a Buddhist country.
Therefore, our company, as a matter of course, enters the summer vacation (five consecutive holidays) by separating into the first and second stages after the Bon Festival. In recent years, however, the concept of “Obon” seems to be fading, and many companies have regular workdays and work comes in normally. It’s a good thing, but it’s actually hard to meet the deadline, and some employees don’t have time off…
I have decided to return to my hometown, the island of Oki, for three or four days of Obon every year, but this year there is also the convenience of my daughter’s work, and it becomes three days of Saturday, Sunday, and the moon, and I have to leave my hometown on the 13th of Obon.
This was also an unthinkable act in the past. If my parents were alive and well, I’m sure they would never have allowed such a thing to happen. To tell you the truth, I have this feeling in my head as well, and I have a lot of resistance to it, but if you ask people around me, I get a casual answer like, “Well, it’s okay…”. Then, somehow, I thought, “Well, okay… .
There is a tendency to be a sense of expediency by nature, and they come up with their own excuses and deal with them conveniently. That’s why I’m going back to the Oki Islands for three days…I’m happy…I’m happy…I’m happy.
