６０段くらいの階段をダッシュで駆け上がりました。

一番に先に着いた者が勝ち。
小学生の友達との遊びはこんな感じで、どこででもゲーム化して楽しみます。
そして教わることも多いので、４５～４６歳離れてても同い年の感覚になるんです。

ところで、私が使わない言葉の一つに、「若いなぁ」とか、「若いねんから」があります。
自分より少し年下の人に言うアレです。

５０歳くらいの差は同い年（笑）
今ここにいてるという事実があまりにも大きいからだと思います。

こんなことを考えてると、辿り着くのはいつも時間のこと。

それと、自分と同じ考えをしてる人はどのくらいいるか。

今日も良い日になりますね。

 

I never say things like, “You’re young,” or, “You’re still young.”

I sprinted up a staircase of about sixty steps.

The rule was simple: whoever reached the top first won.

That was the kind of game my elementary school friends and I played. We could turn almost anything into a competition and somehow make it fun. What surprises me most is how much I learn from children. Even with a gap of forty-five or forty-six years, I often feel as if we are the same age.

By the way, there are a few expressions I rarely use.

One of them is, “You’re young,” or “You’re young, so you can do it.”

You know the kind of thing people say to someone a little younger than themselves.

To me, even a difference of fifty years can feel like being the same age.

Maybe it’s because the fact that we are both here, alive in this moment, feels far more significant than the number of years between us.

Whenever I think about things like this, my thoughts eventually return to time.

And then another question comes to mind:

How many other people see it this way?

Today is going to be a good day.

And no, I still won’t say, “You’re young.”