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To pick and choose or not to pick and choose

Today, when everything is offered as a service, "picking and choosing" has become a very common act.

It is so obvious that one might ask what I am talking about.

I'll give you a few.

Find and select a private school that looks good for your child.

Find and pick and choose the services that will help you with your household chores.

Find and pick and choose images online for your enjoyment.

Find and select an MBA school to advance your career.

Find and pick and choose support services for distant parents.

Find and select the services you want to operate for your own retirement.

There are many others.

What these actions have in common is that they are "listing and comparing".

Digging a little deeper, I think it is based on a style of thinking that tries to reach the goal in the shortest possible distance.

This is natural since there is much to do and time is limited.

However, what should we do if we eventually become tired of "picking and choosing" from too many choices every day?

I can think of two extreme directions.

One would eliminate even the process of choosing = listing and comparing.

In short, promote "recommendations," "templates," and "routines.

The other is the opposite of picking and choosing: not picking and choosing.

Since we will not be using outside services (i.e., there will be no third-party assistance), we will have to do it ourselves anyway, which will take time and effort, but we have no choice.

Even so, it is not all bad.

If I do it by myself, there is only so much I can do, and I can rethink whether I was being a bit greedy and narrow down what I should be doing.

You should paint a picture that looks like it.

When I redecorated one of the rooms in my office, I could see a large, black wall.

Since the interior work was done a long time ago, the marks where things have bumped into each other and rubbed against each other are inevitably noticeable.

Just as I was about to repaint it in black or white, a passage from a book I read the other day came back to me.

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Adventures in the Underground World
Will Hunt (Author), Shiyuki Tanahashi (Translator)
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Fourteen thousand years ago, we were on the path followed by the last Madeleans to enter this cave.

The Madeleine culture, which lasted from 17,000 to 12,000 years ago, is a prominent feature of European prehistory.

Prior to this, the Solutrean (22,000 to 17,000 years ago) and Gravettian (32,000 to 22,000 years ago) cultural periods also had their own periods of brilliance.

They made elegant stone vessels, sculpted beautiful small, portable statues such as the Goddess of Willendorf with her buttocks accentuated, and painted breathtaking murals of animals in the famous "Chauvet Cave".

But the Madeleines were master craftsmen.

You could call it the Florentine Renaissance of the Paleolithic period.

The reindeer and bison they depicted in "Lascaux" and "Altamira" were so exquisite that they could not be considered ancient artifacts, and early archaeologists even declared them to be fabrications.
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It is not enough to just reapply a coat of paint just because it is dirty.

The walls we see all the time are where we express our style, so we should paint a picture that is typical of us.

Yes, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the company, if you want to dabble in this.

So we decided to paint a mural in our office.

At such a time and such a place.

Several times a year, we are asked, "Would you be willing to have our child work as an intern?" We are asked several times a year.

When that happens, I tell them, "Well, as a flow, I have no discretion at all (as to whether or not to hire). I tell them, "I'm sorry to trouble you, but please apply through the website.

I am sorry that I am not really involved in the hiring of students, but even so, I am always struck by the anxious mouths of the parents.

After completing compulsory education in elementary school and junior high school, students proceed to high school, vocational school, and college before finding employment.

What parents can do for young people around the age of 20.

I don't think there's much, I don't think they'd like it.

I felt that way.

But if you start to think about it, it seems different.

If the earth rumbles in your parents' ears with the rapid march of neo-liberalism that incorporates everything into the marketplace.

If everything is integrated into the market, that is, if children's way of life is relative as a number and they have no choice but to constantly compete with each other.

I don't want to send my children to such a place, but if it is inevitable, I want to let them stand in society well ahead of the rest of us.

If such thoughts are transparent, this will be seen as a kind of defensive instinct against society, or a resistance activity.

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Neo-liberalism (neo-liberalism)
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An economics school of thought that, since 1930, has advocated a reevaluation of individual freedom and market principles in response to the social market economy, and that government intervention in individuals and markets should be kept to a minimum.

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Yasuhiro Nakasone, who assumed the prime minister's office in 1982, promoted "private-sector projects" to utilize the vitality of the private sector for social development without any fiscal burden, and further privatized three public corporations: Japan Monopoly Public Corporation, Japan National Railways, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation. Later, neoliberal policies were succeeded by the Hashimoto administration's financial Big Bang and the Koizumi administration's deregulation through sanctuary-free structural reforms.
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I guess it's Sweets at the end of the day.

In my unusually busy schedule, I had completely forgotten about the purification ceremony of Natsukoshi-no-harae.

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Great Purification
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Oharae (大祓え, Oharai) is one of the purification ceremonies of the Japanese Shinto religion.

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Although Natsukoshi-no-harukeri was not established as a vacation period by a proclamation of the Dajokan in 1873, Natsukoshi-no-harukeri, which can be seen in the poem "Mizunagatsu no nagoshi-no-harukeru-hito wa chitose no meinobu-to ufunari" as "title unknown" and "yomi hito unknown" in the "Collection of Poems", is an annual event that has been observed in the private sector from ancient times, It is one of the annual events that have been observed in the private sector since ancient times, and various customs have been preserved.

It is thought that the reason why the ceremony was held in summer was to prevent epidemics and to keep people healthy during the remaining six months of the year by replacing clothes with new ones once every six months before summer, when germs tend to multiply.

It was also a reminder to get through this harsh period of the year, when the rainy season ends on the last day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar and the summer season of intense heat and drought begins in most areas.
It was also a reminder to get through this harsh time of year.

If you have forgotten, you have missed out on Mizunazuki, a Japanese confectionery associated with this event.

As I think about how I didn't get them for everyone this year, I'm beginning to wonder, oh, why is Natsukoshi Mizunashi?

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Mizunazuki (Japanese confectionery)
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According to Nyosen Fujimoto's "Japanese Confectionery" (1968), mizunazuki in its current form was first made by a Japanese confectionery in Kyoto in the Showa period (1926-1989), and was incorporated into food events.

It is said that the white Uiro cut into triangles represents the ice of "Hyokuro no Sekku" or the half of a square to indicate the half of a year, and the red color of azuki beans is also believed to have the meaning of warding off bad luck.
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Surprisingly, to think that it had the same origin as Valentine's Day chocolates.

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Valentine's Day
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It was partially done by foreigners who came to Japan before World War II, and shortly after World War II, the distribution and confectionery industries attempted to popularize it for sales promotion, but it did not take root in Japanese society until the late 1970s.

It is said that the owner of the confectionery store, who was troubled by the drop in sales every February, came up with the idea of this project.

It was around this time that the "Japanese Valentine's Day" style of "women giving chocolate to men as a token of their affection" was established.

Culturally, Japanese men did not have the custom of giving gifts to women, so it did not take root. When the catchphrase was changed to "gifts from women to men," it gradually became popular.

It is said to have been a successful commercial success due to the confectionery store's planning and advertising, catch copy, publicity methods, and tag-teaming with department stores.

It is said that Kunio Hara of Merry Chocolate Kamppany, a confectionery company in Ota-ku, Tokyo, was the first to devise and practice the idea of giving chocolates on Valentine's Day.

Hara is said to have given the catchphrase "Once a year, a day when a woman can confide her love to you.
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I felt a bit dusty.

Even with the ostentatious name of "Natsukoshi no Purification" or the commemorative name to celebrate the saint, in the end, it's all about the sweets.

If we were to break the ice a few times a year and say, "I knew it was the right thing to do, to simply eat good food and celebrate," I'm sure people would look at us with smiles that would spill over.