いつまでも健康に暮らすには・・・「精神的な張り」が大切か

　一般論として、高齢になると病気に罹り易いようですが、もしかして、これは「精神的な張り」に関係してるかもしれません。日々、心に解決すべきある程度の負荷が掛かっていたり、やるべき仕事があり、そこに「生き甲斐」を感じていることが大切でしょう。私の場合、新たな人との出会いも大きな喜びです。

　生き甲斐の内容は趣味でも良いです。昔、私は学校勤務の傍ら、５０年間もレース鳩を飼育し、早朝に起き、出勤前に舎外訓練と餌遣りの日々で、北海道からその日のうちに帰還する優秀な鳩を育てることをめざしてました。その中の１羽が「稚内モザイク号」で、帰って来たとき鳩を手に持ち「稚内から倉賀野まで、よく帰ってきた」と涙が出ました。今振り返ると充実そのものです。内モンゴルへも行け、イギリスのレース鳩雑誌の表紙も飾ったのは鳩のお陰です。

　現在、皆さんのおかげで、発信してるブログはすでに１８年間になり、今までに書いた記事数は約５０００です。ブログは発想のため、今日は「何について書くか」、無い頭を絞って書く作業です。内容は、総じて「人間の喜びとは何か」を追究してます。

　精神的な張りの中には、音楽演奏【ピアノ・ソプラノサックス】や庭で植物を育てること、友人と時々一杯やり、心を解放することも大きいです。この夏の予定は愛車ＴＴで大好きな群馬の名峰「谷川岳」の天神平と天神峠散策、そして、近くの谷川温泉に浸かることです。本心は誰かと一緒に行きたいです。

Dear my friends who are crazy about joy of human and great music.

　The simultaneous interpretation into English for our mutual understanding will be done after my breakfast in Japan time.

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　Generally speaking, people are more susceptible to illness as they get older, but this may be related to "mental tension." It is important to have a certain amount of mental stress to resolve it every day, work to do, and a sense of purpose in life. In my case, meeting new people is also a great joy.

　Any hobby can be a purpose in life. In the past, I raised racing pigeons for 50 years while working at a school, waking up early in the morning and training outside the loft and feeding the pigeons before going to work, aiming to raise excellent pigeons that would return from Hokkaido on the same day. The name of one of them was "Wakkanai Mosaic," and when she returned, I held the pigeon in my hands and cried, saying, "I'm glad that she have returned from Wakkanai to Kuragano."where is the northern most place in Japan. Looking back now, it was a fulfilling experience at that time. It was thanks to the pigeons that I was able to go to Inner Mongolia and even appear the cover of a British racing pigeon magazine named "Pictorial".

　Thanks to all of you, I have been posting the weblog for 18 years so far, and have written about 5,000 articles. Blogging is about ideas, so every time I was racking my brain to write about something. In general, the content explores the question, "What is human's joy?"

　My mental wellbeing also includes playing music (piano and soprano saxophone), raising many plants in my garden, and having the occasional drink with friends to free my mind. My plan for this summer is to take a stroll around Tenjindai on my beloved Gumma prefecture's famous peak Mt. Tanigawadake, by my beloved Audi TT Quattro, and to soak in the nearby "Tanigawa Spar". In truth, I'd like to go with someone.