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Hello everyone, this is Yasui, the one-man president running a company that mainly inspects high-pressure gas facilities.
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Halloween has become pretty well rooted here in Japan, hasn’t it?
Then comes November with Black Friday — more and more companies in Japan seem to be joining in on that campaign every year.
And of course, December brings Christmas.
The shopping events just keep on coming!
This year, I turned 40.
Lately, I’ve started to feel small signs of aging — a bit of fatigue here, a slower recovery there.
When I see people who were in their 40s and 50s when I started working now stepping into full retirement, I can’t help but see my own future in them. It’s a bit frightening, honestly.
At 40, the future I used to think was still far ahead suddenly feels close — warm and real, breathing down my neck.
My kids are growing fast too.
My oldest son will be in his final year of junior high next year, preparing for high school entrance exams, and my youngest will be old enough to start elementary school the year after that.
That means more expenses, more rides to lessons, and less time to rest.
I can’t just say, “I’m tired, I’ll take a break.”
If things keep going as they are, we might end up with a future similar to what today’s 70-year-olds are living through.
But… reality probably won’t be that kind.
Now, we’re already seeing one of the ruling parties pushing for “elderly people to pay 30% of medical costs.”
They call it a fundamental reform of the healthcare system — but that boomerang will eventually come back to hit us too.
We, the working generation, might feel justified in criticizing the older generations, but in truth, we’re simply preparing the same ground we’ll be walking on in a few decades.
So, the future awaiting us may not be as comfortably “happy” as theirs was.
Even with NISA — the investment program — the message feels clear:
“The government may not be able to support you much longer. So, save and invest on your own. If you don’t, well… that’s on you.”
It’s not really hidden between the lines — it’s right there in plain sight.
And take the recent bear incidents making headlines across Japan. People call it the ‘rewilding of the countryside.’ It’s just another visible symptom of depopulation and aging catching up with us.
Change doesn’t usually hit overnight — it creeps in quietly, bit by bit, until one day you realize the world has shifted beneath your feet.
If we only look at the surface of things, we miss what’s underneath — the government’s real intent (not necessarily a conspiracy, just the underlying logic).
We’re entering an era where we must live wisely.
We need to gain knowledge and discernment — that’s the kind of strength we’ll need to survive.
There used to be a saying that as your body grows weaker with age, your wisdom deepens — that’s how we imagined our grandparents’ generation, isn’t it?
Maybe it’s time we revived that way of living.
How do we get there?
Simple — we start now.
Thank you so much for reading until the end.
See you next time!
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