I will write again

I have not written here for long. I was surprised to find it is a year ago that I wrote last. Many things have happened since then. I had a bypass surgery in May. Though I am healthy again to my great joy but as I have lost my job as a teacher I stay at home almost every day and make it a rule to spend my days writing manuscripts and translate the books written in Germany into Japanese. I published the translation this January and another translation will be soon published. As I wrote in my last diary my doctor advised me to write books. He added that I should select the work. Sickness taught me what important is for me.

Comments

[Ichiro]

Thank you Monika. In the book I am now writing, which is to be published soon (though I have not finished writing it yet) I am dealing with the problem of the disease and death, which, needless to say, are big problems which cannot be answered easily. I want to stress the important of the disease in the sense that it teaches us, to use your expression, what it is worth living for.

[monika]

Isn't it interesting how some things in our lives make others much more "relative"? And how these events teach us what really matters to us, what it is worth living for in our eyes?

I am glad to read that your health problems that you have luckily overcome by now opened such insights for you.

Congratulations on having successfully published a translation to Japanese lately and on having another one in the queue! You will leave footprints of your life once you go...

All the best for you,
Monika