This is Jiku. This time, I'd like to discuss the meaning of a person's life. I'll be writing about the theme, "A person's life is long enough time to fulfill their mission."
A person's life. Hmm. A person's life is fleeting and difficult. I recommend living each day to the fullest. If you spend a day pushing yourself to the limit, and before you know it, the sun has already set, it's not such a bad thing.
As a day, it's very short because you're focused on work, but when you look at it as a month or a year, it's strange how a month or a year ago feels like a distant past. A person's life is long enough time to fulfill their mission.
I think this statement only applies when you live each day desperately to fulfill your mission. As for what a mission is, I think what one considers a mission is different for each person. You
don't necessarily need to live for someone else, and even if it's your own dream, I think that dream is a fine mission. I feel that thinking of a mission as simply a future dream is a bit too simplistic and they're not the same thing.
That said, future dreams can also be seen as goals that you must achieve, so they can also be seen as a kind of mission.
Even if your mission is to take action to make society better, as long as that mission doesn't go in the wrong direction, you should be able to see a concrete path forward of what you need to do.
I, too, worked 16 hours a day, and at one point I thought I had fulfilled my mission. I thought I had fulfilled my mission when I was satisfied with my work and felt I didn't need to ask for anything more.
However, looking back now, I realize that I was only halfway there, and that there may be an unseen future ahead, which I later came to understand is that thinking about that opens up even more possibilities for the future.
From my experience, I can say that a mission is the role given to you, and fulfilling that role, that is, being satisfied with your work, is what it means to fulfill your mission.
Lately, I've been thinking of this blog itself as a kind of self-improvement, but it's also part of my mission, and I feel it's correct to see that I'm fulfilling my mission by writing this blog.
Fulfilling the role given to you by society is not easy. The higher your aspirations, the greater the role you should be given.
Historical figures are unforgettable individuals who fulfilled great missions, but even without such grand missions, I believe that if each individual lives honestly in society, goals that they must achieve will naturally become apparent.
Even if those goals seem meaningless at first glance, through the earnest effort to achieve them, the goals may change shape and transform into the goals that we should have originally strived for.
That is where our growth and future lie, and by clearing each challenge, our vision will broaden, and we will be able to see things we couldn't see before.
In my case, I would say that blogging is a kind of mission, but I still can't clearly envision whether I want to use it for self-improvement or education.
However, if I continue to write daily records of my thoughts and feelings, I think that the ideal form of my blog—my mission—will eventually appear before my eyes.
To avoid feeling inadequate at that time, it is wise to complete the necessary studies now, before a new mission becomes clear. I believe that a person's mission is to be given a suitable goal that requires the appropriate level of ability for that person.
Mission is a difficult topic. My favorite proverb, "Do your best and leave the rest o fate," also implies that in order to fulfill one's mission, one must work hard and prepare thoroughly, and then wait for the opportunity to come. This shows that there are two stages:
the stage of working hard to prepare, and the stage of being fully prepared and waiting for the opportunity. If one lacks ability, the opportunity will never come, and even if it does come, one will not be able to fulfill it.
In other words, it seems important to live each day to the fullest so that one's abilities improve and one is in a state where one can fulfill the opportunity whenever it comes. Live
each day so densely that you can't remember what you did an hour ago.
In a sense, you are in a state of memory loss in the short term of a day, but when you look back over a medium-term span of a month or a year, it feels like it was so long ago that you can't remember. By accumulating this over a long-term span of 5 or 10 years in the form of daily work, you acquire overwhelming ability.
I, too, have been striving to fulfill my mission not just for 5 or 10 years, but I'm approaching 15 years of experience. Seniors with 20 or 30 years of training may scold me, saying I still have a long way to go, but after struggling to fulfill my mission for 15 years, I feel a firm confidence that I have a solid foundation that cannot be shaken by a gentle breeze.
In the world of sports, the mid-30s is often the time to retire, but for those who compete intellectually, or for businessmen, the 30s and 40s are the years when they can perform at their best.
I am currently in my mid-30s, and five years have already passed since my first competitive period at age 30, but I want to achieve great success in the next 15 years, starting with this blog. The first step is updating this blog every day, and from here I would like to expand my field of business.
Until a few years ago, my mission was to make society a better place, but now, through this blog, I live each day with a renewed sense of mission: to nurture and educate the next generation.
First and foremost, as a preliminary step to nurturing future generations, I believe my own potential lies in experimenting with the possibilities of this blog.
This article has given me much to think about, and Im also curious to hear the reactions of my readers. Our mission takes root in our daily lives.
What do we consider to be our purpose in life, and how do we challenge our own potential? I believe that our mission lies in the daily training we undergo to realize our limitless potential.
What is your mission? What preparations are you making for that mission? So that when an opportunity comes your way, you can seize it with your own abilities. That's all. Thank you. Jiku.
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