Yesterday, the third Monday of September, was Respect for the Aged Day in Japan.
It’s a day to honor and thank our elders who have contributed to society for so many years. How did you spend the day?

In my family, we took our children to visit their grandmother to express our gratitude in person.

It may sound obvious, but every child has parents, each of whom also has their own parents — and they, too, had parents before them.
That means even one life is connected through fourteen people or more — a chain of precious existence.

Lately, I feel that the value of such precious life tends to be taken lightly.
How can we better communicate the importance and irreplaceable value of life to others?
That may be one of the challenges of our time.

Perhaps there’s much to reconsider — starting with how we teach and nurture the next generation.