Serene state of mind

　　

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4. Putting aside other countries, on weather forecasts in our country, they usually call rainy weather as bad weather and express as weather recovery when rain stops, and so on.
It's true that in rainy days, people face various troubles such as laundry doesn't dry, we get wet, we have to take umbrella, sports events are cancelled...
On the other hand, for example, for farmers, weather is indicator for their task, and crops need rain to grow.
　So I think that saying rain as rain and sunny as sunny is enough
　　-Expect in case when the weather can wake disasters and cause health damages.

5. A while ago, when I was having late lunch at a restaurant, a birthday party was going on near my seat.
When a server brought a birthday cake to the party table, a birthday song suddenly came, singing:
　"Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday ...".
　　This song by the visually impaired music legend who is respected as a soul music god is bright uplifting tune, and sounds suitable for birthday parties.
At the same time, I wondered whether those people knew what this song is about.
This song was written when the Legend was taking part in a campaign to make the civil-righter Clergyman's birthday a national holiday.
Later, when I laid bare this question to Husband, he told me about a famous misunderstood rock tune in the national origin of the Legend, saying:
It's funny that the Rock song whose hook is often used as a patriotic song at sports matches and political events is actually a song about a returned soldier from the War that is well-known for tragedy caused by defoliant.

6. This summer, I went to a biographic movie about a worldwide popular seventeen-minute long ballet tune written between two World Wars, and its compositeur.
Needless to say, the music was great.
And while I seldom choose movies to watch by casts, I thought that the acting by leading performer is notable.
There was a big point to gibe, though:
I understand that unlike now, back then, smoking was supposed to prove adulthood and relax people.
Even so, at the scene when the Compositeur is trying to draw out ideas for the Ballet tune with a cigarette in his hand, I couldn't help imagining that the reason why he is unable to write songs is he is smoking so heavily that his brain is going oxygen shortage.
As a result, the Ballet performance turns out to be a great success.
However, the Compositeur actually hates the Chef-d'œuvre, and since then, the Chef-d'œuvre that the Compositeur devoted his life into begins to undermine his life, until he ends up in cranial nerve disease.
I accuse that what destroyed his life was heavy smoking habit, not the spell of Ballet tune nor agony due to gap between his ideal and actual evaluation.

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