【内容情報】（出版社より）
ALSという難病の身で言葉を綴ることに何らかの意味があるように思えた。
足の指先と目線とでパソコンを操作しながら執筆するという体の不自由さの中でも心は弾んだ。動かぬ身体は不自由だけれども心は自由だということを強く実感した。
闘病生活も6年が経ち、ある実感を積み重ねそれは確信へと変わっていった。
それは、「心の持ちようで、心のありようで誰でも必ず幸せになれる」ということ。そんな確信を得るきっかけがこのエッセイの執筆にあった。
このエッセイが、誰かのために、たった一人でも誰かの役に立ったらうれしいと思う。少しでも紡ぎ出した言葉たちが、誰かの元気になれば、誰かの勇気になれば、一瞬の微笑みになれば幸いです。
エッセイ七十七つに織り込んだ「誰もが幸せになれる。もっともっと幸せになりましょう」といったメッセージが届きますように。
When I dreamed about a pink cow, I decided to write this book.
First of all, I started with some ideas with a pink cow and enjoyed it.
It could be a revelation from God telling me to “get to work.” Well, that might be an overstatement, I felt there was some meaning to writing my words with ALS.
I even felt it was my mission.
I’m a man, not an author, so that is just scribblings, not the work.
Still, I felt true joy when I finished each essay.
Even with the physical disability of writing while typing with my legs, my heart was still lively. I strongly felt that although my body was disabled, my mind was free, and I immersed myself in a fantasy world on my bed and my wheelchair. I felt exhilarated to be free of suffering, despair, darkness, and the fear of death.
After 6 years of fighting against ALS, my feeling has been changed to confidence. That is, “anyone can always be happy with the right mind and the right heart. And I also got confidence from writing the essays. The “happiness lesson” may be an exaggeration, but it has become valuable and important essays for myself.
I will be glad if the essays will be helpful to someone, even if it is only one person. I hope that the words I have weaved, even if only a little, will cheer someone up, give someone courage, or bring a momentary smile to their face.
I hope that the message woven into the seventy-seven essays, “Everyone can be happy, let’s be happier”, will reach you.
- 出版社 : Independently published
- 発売日 : 2023/4/15
- ペーパーバック : 240ページ
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