1959年生まれのオヤジ

私も遂に60歳（還暦）になりました。子供の頃は、60歳と言う年齢が創造もつかなかった。とてつもなく遥か未来のことに思えた。しかし、自分が60歳を迎えて思うことは、昔も今も自分は自分。何ら変わりがないような気がする。あっという間の歳月だった。子供の頃に見上げた夏空、大学生の頃に見上げた夏空、子供たちと一緒に遊んでいる頃に見上げた20年前の夏空、そして今。いつ見てもそんなに変わりのない風景に感じる。多分何年後かに、更に老人になってから見上げた夏空も同じだろう。しかし、その頃の自分を今は少し想像できる。つまり先が見えてきたのかもしれない。更に老人になった頃に楽しかったなと思えるように、今やれることはやっておきたい。いつの時代も、次を見据えた努力が必要だ。楽しい老後を迎えるため、お互いに頑張りましょう。 梅酒作りの季節になりましたね。写真は今年我が家で作った梅酒です。飲み頃はいつですかね。

I also became the sixtieth year(Kanreki). When I was a child, I had no idea that I would be 60 years old. I thought of the tremendously distant future. However, what I think at the age of 60 is that I have never changed before and now. I feel that there is no change. It was an instant for quite a while. The summer sky I looked up at when I was a child, the summer sky I looked up at when I was a university student, the summer sky 20 years ago I looked up while playing with children, and the sky I am looking at now. I always feel the scenery does not change so much even when I look. Perhaps the same is the summer sky I looked up after becoming an old man some years later. However, I can imagine myself a little for some years later. In other words, I may be able to see the future. I also want to do what I can do now, just as I thought it was fun when I became an old man. In any age, it is necessary to make efforts for the next. Let’s work hard with each other in order to have a happy old age. It’s time to make plum wine. The photo is plum wine made at my home this year. When is it time to drink?