Or it’s already ended?
But I can feel somewhat comfortable whether comparing with mid-summer, so my feeling is it’s ending.

Yen is being weak. This is important as large part of my asset is share of my company in dollar base and my company’s share is not doing well.
Maybe changing the job can be good option, but it’s bothering to change the environment.
And there’s no guarantee that next company is better as a whole.
On the other hand, my take is it’s very difficult to keep the salary level in Japan.

And I got used to remote working during these 4-5 years.
Now changing this work style will be a big change in my daily life.

I guess I adjusted myself to the life itself.
And getting bored more.
What new will come to my life where the time and resource is limited for precious my daughters.
Obviously I need to change my view otherwise not good.
I don’t think it’s fatal like depression, but at least it will be not good.

While I stayed at my wife’s home town, I read 2 books and watched 1 Netflix drama series.

なめらかな世界と、その敵 is the one and which is collection of short stories for science fiction.
Very well written and full of great idea.
But unfortunately I’m not capable enough to explain nicely.

Another one is 成瀬は天下を取りにいく.
I love that story where Naruse is behaving a bit strange but attracting.
The balance is great between her humanity and non-human like part.
If there’s no humanity at all, that living thing is more like animal and no more interesting.

Umbrella academy is the drama series and it’s 4th series which will be final.
But it’s a bit disappointing. I wanted to see the good ending with the characters in the TV series.

From tomorrow, I need to go back to work.
I need money to retire from work.

My company will be restructuring for the 2nd time this year.

This is quite bad news.
We have lost the people of 4% in Feb.
Then we will lose 7% of people in my company this time.

Company performance factor which will be directly used for calculation on bonus is worst in this 20 years.
Only good thing is the price of share is going a bit high based on the news and conference call.

I love my company as working environment is good and compensation is very competitive.
I will need to expect decreasing of my salary when I change my job.

Maybe I can survive this time, as restructuring itself is the event almost every year.
But I strongly hope the improvement of my situation in the company especially when I survive the harsh restructuring as I will be the kind of winner, and I’m not the non-contributor to the company.

Taking 11 days off as Obon vacation and still I have remaining 3 days.

Situation of August is a bit different from last year.
Usually my wife and daughters went back her home town at end of July, and I can enjoy single like about 1 week.

But my elder daughter has private tutor.
And she can only take days off in Obon week.
So we went back to my home town together at first, then moved to my wife’s home town, and stayed 6 days.

This couldn’t be helped as my daughter is growing and staying in parent’s home town long will be unnatural more and more.
But I miss the feeling of staying in my home like single.

We went to beach in this Sunday with family friends.
Preparing all the wear and stuff is quite bothering especially to my wife, but feeling she on the beach is one of the greatest experience.
But this time, there’s a lot of Yakuza visited to Moriya kaigan.
It was scared a bit.

I understand there’s no “meaning” in the world as we, human being, just discover the meaning from a lot of things.
If there’s death of people, we discover the meaning and especially people who close to the deceased will find out huge and wide meaning for the event.

But if all the people died, no one will find out the meaning.
It’s just nothing.

I understand the logic, but on the other hand, we are the living animal automatically discovering the meaning.
Not finding out the meaning is not possible as it just means we need to have complete control on our emotion and instinct.

This contradiction itself is the joy of life, and also struggle and pain of life.
I just wanted to be freed up but I don’t want to the any experience which cause pain or fear.

My daughters will start their summer vacation in 1 week.

In the past, my wife and daughters go to her hometown as soon as possible after the summer vacation starts.
But this year, my elder daughter will have summer classes of private school.
And she only has 8-9 days off surprisingly.
Each day, the private school is arranged only in morning, but same kind of summer vacation is not possible this year due to the limited days off.

Still we will go back to each home town in Obon period.
But biggest problem is I can’t stay in home alone in summer time.
That was kind of special experience for me and only possible in summer vacation period.
Now it’s going to be impossible as well.

But when I consider it from different POV, I come to know that such kind of past vacation will be not common as well even without private school.
When I was child, I have sports activity every weekend, and more in vacation period.
When it comes to junior high school student, staying 3 weeks in home town is already not common.

It’s a good time and we can find free environmental sounds on the internet.
I’m just listening the sound of rain, and it’s comfortable to read books.

Read the book by 中島らも again.
Actually I didn’t remember the exact content.
But after finishing it, I understand that I did indeed read the book long before.

Actually this is something unique feeling.
The trigger for this feeling is not so easy to pull, so the preparation for this feeling is not so easy.
You have to read the good book first, then you have to wait 10-20 years so that memory to fade.

It’s always good to read the good books again.

It’s been 6 month after new year.
It will be a season for sea bathing soon.

My elder daughter started to use glasses as her eyesight is getting worse.
She likes her glasses as she thinks it’s cute.
It should have good impact on her all the activity as weak eyesight can cause lots of trouble.
It can be due to mobile devices but I also understand it’s genetic one and can be inherited from parents and grand parents.

I hope the price of my company’s stocks will be increased soon.
The proportion of shares in my asset is increasing and the cash is decreasing.
But I don’t want to sell the stocks at the price lower than the price recorded in the past.

I turned 41 this month.

I understand I should be satisfied with my current job.

The salary is great and I don’t know other Japanese/foreign company in Japan which can provide same level of compensation.
There can be depending on the role, but I understand the number of open position is not huge and need strong career history, capability or skill set.

I can still work from home without any issue on completing my job.
And no one try to make me commute to the office as I’m only person working in Japan for my entire business unit.

The compliance and work environment is good.
There’s no jerks who attack and offend me, and managers/leadership is always trying to care my mental health.

The environment is challenging and still there’s a lots of things I can learn.

But still labor is labor. I don’t want to spend my time for work.
I finally figured out this is baseline.

I’m not sure but my work is associated with huge pressures for problem resolution.
And this can be source of stress.

I’m not sure if once this point is improved, I can be work lover.
Or still labor is labor.

I realize days off is very important especially with hard work which having huge pressure or challenges, stressful conversation with any stakeholders.
Even if we lose our motivation and energy for confronting the challenges, having 2 days off is greatly helpful for us to “forget” the stress.
And we can feel like we can work from scratch.

Ideally I don’t want to have those kind of stressful work but sometimes we don’t have choice.
Not having proper time off is serious problem for human being to live normal life.

Sleeping early is complicated.
We need enough sleep as it’s part of proper time off.
But if we sleep early, tomorrow will come early.

Recently my work is hectic and having challenge, hence I had this kind of thought process.