Goto Kosaku
Pianissimo Life
Life can be compared to a symphony. It consists of four movements: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. When you are a child, you grow up quite rapidly in regard to your body, as the tempo of the first movement is very fast. In the next stage, you experience mental development and your emotional life becomes rich like the beautiful melody of the second movement. During your adulthood, you contribute to society, enjoying your life, which seems like the light melody of the third movement. Finally, your talent blossoms in the fourth movement. Moreover, you lead a gorgeous life. After that, you pass out with fortissimo energy.
Haikawa Takaho
Seek My Treasure
Life is a treasure hunt. This means that I always seek the best thing. To get the genuine treasure, I have to sail through the sea and climb mountains with difficulties. On the way to reach the treasure, there will be pirates or dangerous animals facing me. These imply hardships, for example, passing an entrance examination. Fighting against the obstacles day by day, I will be able to get the genuine treasures finally. When I open the box of gold and silver coins, crowns and medals, I’ll feel satisfied about having taken on some challenges along the journey. My happiness consists in the contentment with making progress in my identity. After the adventure I’ll continue to search for something, which is the next treasure. My pursuit will never stop because of my wide range of curiosity. Treasure hunters also go anywhere that they want and begin to discover the higher quality luxuries. They do everything to obtain them, and I will do so, too, but I will get my treasures in the proper way.
Hayashi Karin
Life Is a Box of Chocolates
I think life is a box of chocolates. Chocolate tastes bitter and sweet. Life has both a bitter taste and a sweet taste, too. Life can be long, hard, and painful, for example, studying for entrance examinations, taking tests, working, and getting caught in the tangle of human relations. Such hard times are to be compared to the bitterness of chocolate. But then again, life can be very happy, for example, falling in love, marrying for love, giving birth, eating favorite food, spending money for yourself, and traveling. Such happy times are to be compared to the sweetness of chocolate. Happy times last longer than hard times. The sweet taste of chocolate is stronger than its bitter taste, too.
Hayashi Takahiro
Labyrinth
Life is a labyrinth. As long as we are alive, we run into various obstacles. Just then we may be at a loss for we can’t overcome those obstacles. This labyrinth probably has infinite exits. Each person has his own exit, which is different from others’. But a few people can’t find them. They will flounder endlessly through the labyrinth. That is to say, they will spend their life without any purpose. Life is a labyrinth. So we have to find our own path through it.
Ishibashi Yuko
Puzzle
Life is a jigsaw puzzle which we can’t complete. It begins when we are born in this world and we can’t make this puzzle by ourselves. It is made with our friends or parents. This puzzle is our memories. Each memory, whether it is happy, sad, embarrassing, bitter or enjoyable, is one piece. The puzzle’s size and color and shape are different for each person. We live in this world to put together our own puzzles, but we never complete them. Human beings always live with hope, so if this puzzle is completed, we lose our hope. I want to live to make a much bigger puzzle than now.
Kato Erino
I Am Brilliant Ore
My life is like the stones on the roadside because I resemble them in change and transformation. The stones are trodden on, kicked, rolled and struck. They are lit by the sunshine or pelted by the rain or buried in snow and frozen. Someone may pick one up and put it into her pocket to place in a window. It may serve as a paperweight. Gradually the jagged edges are worn down and the stone becomes round. If I were a mineral when it was polished and bright, I would want to strive hard and enhance myself. I don’t want to finish my life as a stone but as a diamond.
Morisaki Akiko
White Sponge
Life is a white sponge. A white sponge absorbs water and we can paint it various colors, but it if absorbs too much water, the water will spill. This is how I such in various kinds of knowledge and experience. But I can’t concentrate on one thing all the time, so I must rest in the interval. For example, I study at school and I learn areas of knowledge. I like watching movies, but I can’t concentrate on that all the time. In this way, I absorb the various things that will color m life.
Nakamura Tomoya
It Depends on You
Life is something like an escalator. Climbing one headed down means striving and it is the only way to grow strong. The more you climb, the stronger your body and soul become. However, if you stop going up, you’ll go down. This is because this escalator goes downward constantly. Great people probably ascended one even if they were faced with a lot of troubles. On the other hand, lazy people must have given up doing so. Everyone has their own escalator and the ability to ascend. Whether you make efforts or not depends on you.
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