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Even though water and electricity are stopped, we don’t have problem for two weeks.
Because here is rural area, we have something to eat.
We can drink spring water, use candle if there is no electricity, and have rice and potatoes in the yard so we can eat them.
Maybe people in urban area have more difficulties than us during the disaster.
After the disaster, I thanked to the normal daily life.
However, human think easier ways and forget bad things. It is scary.
Even people in this area are forgetting about that time, so I think people in urban area are already forgotten, aren’t they?
I feel that our lives are not that bad. Inconvenient rural life is good.
Convenient and having money are one of the happiness for people.
But, our lives are independent so we don’t need supports from others during the disaster.
I felt pitiful when I saw many people ran to many stores to buy food, tissue papers and many things.
We don’t have to be frustrated because we can live about six month without buying things from stores. I feel confidence from that experience.
Also, many people supported us.
People, who only get contact once in a year, sent many things very soon from the disaster. Many people worried about us.
I really felt the value of people.
So, if there is anyone who needs help, I want to help like they did to us. That is one thing that I decided.
We have used nuclear power plant recently without thinking anything. But the earthquake made us to think the risks of it.
People like our age know the time without anything, so we can live without electricity for few days.
But it is hard for young people to live.
When time passed, people will forget about nuclear power plants.
However, many things and policies were already decided before we know about those.
Earning money is important.
Without money, we cannot live and it is not good for society.
(Interviewer: When did you feel that?)
When I was in school I had used more money than now, maybe. When I was university student, I think I had most money.
I think the best thing is that find job and work.
I don’t think sticking to something is not that important.
Sticking too much is not that good… 30 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Our life is not going the way you think. Even as for one minute, even as for one second.
Even death. Life is not only yours. It is given from others.
So, I feel that I must live life to the fullest.
(Interviewer: Do you think the things you do now is mission or purpose of your life?)
I thought about the words “mission” and “purpose” right now, but it’s different from that.
I did what I have to do without thinking anything.
Each time, the situation gave me something to solve.
“What I have to do for those left over apples”? “What I have to do for those left over vegetables”?
When there was problem, I solve it. That made now.
I didn’t have big goal, but I just things what I have to do that time.
As a result, I think that action become action to make the “mura-okoshi (town revitalization)” �