What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.
ボクが憧れたのは翔太部長の『力』じゃない。体を張ってでも信念を貫こうとする雄々しい勇気だったはず。
One who longs for death is miserable, but more miserable is he who fears it.
死に憧れる者は惨めであるが、死を恐れる者はさらに惨めである。
When I was in my first years of grade school, my father taught me a haiku and I longed to be a poet. On my Tanabata wish, I also wrote "Please make me a poet". Thirty years have passed and my wish has been granted. I am without doubt an invalid.
