ちょっといい話１ 心は老いぬ YOUR HEART NEVER GETS OLD

ちょっといい話１

心は老いぬ

中日新聞（３月２２日付）に次のような内容のコラムがあった。
昨年９２歳で亡くなったアメリカ文学研究者、加島祥造さんによると、自宅の近くに樹齢３００年の桜の老木があり、その老木の花びらと自宅の庭に咲く若い桜の花びらを見比べたら、全然見分けが付かなかったそうだ。加島さん曰く「人間だって同じだ。花びらは人の生命力や精神力であり、年老いても同じ花びらを付けることができる。いくつになろうと心は老いぬ」
なんという人生の応援歌！

A PIECE OF GOOD NEWS 1

 

Your Heart Does Not Get Old

 

A column in the Chunichi Newspaper last week read:
　　According to Shozo Kashima, a scholar on the American literature, who died at the age of 92 last year, there was a 300-year old cherry tree near his house. He compared the cherry blossom petals of the old tree and those of the young cherry tree in his garden. He could not distinguish the old petals from the young ones. He said, “The same is true with human beings. Blossom petals are their vitality and spirit. However old you become, you can bear the same petals. It means your heart never gets old.
　　How encouraging!