It's okay if it's unfinished.

I'm happy to announce that I successfully celebrated my 60th birthday on June 10, 2023.
I want to thank everyone I have met and everything that has happened.
It can be an auspicious feeling.

I was really grateful to NAKAMA of ZYX for giving me a kanreki (60th birthday) celebration that was beyond my stature. It was certainly a special time in my life, as I received words of "congratulations" and congratulatory gifts from many people.

I guess it's gratifying and celebratory to see the zodiac come full circle, but to be honest, I'm not sure if I'm happy about it. In addition to the kanreki party, a golf competition under the name of "Kanreki Cup" was also held. When I arrived at the golf course in the morning and registered to play at the reception desk, I felt an indescribable emotion when I entered my date of birth and age for the first time since my 60th birthday.

I enthusiastically support the "sevenfold age" theory advocated by Chairman Inaba, and I would like to nod my head wholeheartedly in agreement with his statement that "age is just a symbol." But the modulation of the body towering in front of me is accelerating crippling to full affirmation. I finally started carrying a reading glass, I wake up early in the morning in vain, my joints ache when I stand up if I stay in the same position for too long, my hands go numb, I cramp in parts of my body that I never cramped before, and I trip a lot because I don't walk with my feet up as much as I used to.
It is extremely unpleasant!
I'm already complaining a lot.
It is true that time is equal for everyone, and it is also true that it is finite.

"Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi said. It's inspiring, but it's not easy to stomach until you've experienced as much greatness and mastery as he has.

In five more years, I will be labeled as "early stage elderly." Why does the race of bureaucrats have such a poor sense of naming things? I don't like the term "end-of-life" either. I guess there is a kind of Japanese virtue of not bothering others at the root of it. It doesn't end up being done halfway through. Achieve proper completion with your own hands.
I don't think I'm wrong, but if I said that, I'd be thinking about closing hands all the time and not starting anything new. You might keep losing speed, but you can't just sprint as fast as you can and then crash and fall. The problem is maintaining the motivation to keep running at full speed. I wonder if I can be at full throttle in my mind while coming to terms with my deteriorating physical body.

The words of rare artist Tadanori Yokoo also inspire me.
"The people
born without having completed one's work
Living Unfinished.
You're going to die unfinished.
Why don't you just leave it unfinished?"

And we do not give up or throw in the towel, but accept the sadness and absurdity of it all, with just one word, we can break the chain of negative thoughts and look forward, not by forgetting, but by interpreting.
Fujio Akatsuka, a genius, left us such a single word.
"This is the way to go!"
A heartbreakingly positive affirmation that is sobering!
Big kick!

Representative Director, ZYX Inc.
Fumiaki Nakaya

"At the risk of being a meander, let me introduce the first scene in which it is used.
I am the father of Bakabon.
It's a hard world.
It is not as I would have it.
But I'm all right.
I'm always me, so it's all right.
He says this is all right, so it's all right.
You're you, and that's all that matters.
And that's okay.
And that's okay.
I am retired.
I retired from all my worries.
That's why I'm not tired.
How's that? That's the way it's done.
This is the way to go.
After all, this is the way it should be."

Some of these things are in good shape.
Collaboration with Bakabon and poet Shuntaro Tanikawa.

"I'm not sure I can live with myself.
I wash my own pants.
I respect myself.
That's all.
If I smile,
I'm happy for myself and I'm happy for you.
If I'm angry, I'll be angry with myself.
I'll make up with myself soon enough.
I'm very sensitive to scratches.
I am the one who is superior to myself.
I'm going to say what I mean.
I will not lose myself
I like myself, I like myself.
I will not spare my life for my sake.
That's right, I'm a wonderful person."