I was rewatching the early episodes of City Fisherman..
A young idol singer had appeared as a guest
and it seemed like it was his first time fishing..
He had to bait the hook with a worm,
but this guy — and not even a girl, but a guy — was scared of a measly(?) worm
and spent 10 minutes squirming just to get one worm on the hook..
But by the afternoon,
he was baiting the hook with worms like a total pro, and said..
Even though I didn't catch any fish,
he was absolutely thrilled, saying he had grown one level..
In the morning he was too scared to even touch a worm,
but by the afternoon, seeing himself bait the hook without fear, he seemed proud of himself..
That guy grew one level in just a single day..
And just the other morning, I too..
after nearly 20 years, experienced what it means to grow one level..
I don't like taking photos..
Maybe because of that..
I rarely post photos on SNS..
Especially taking photos of food at restaurants..
I've never been particularly fond of going out somewhere, taking photos, and sharing them like that..
The truth is, since I barely take photos at all,
I couldn't share them even if I wanted to..
The other morning..
I was sitting on the sofa side by side with my wife watching YouTube
when I noticed she was looking at her phone..
I wondered what she was looking at and casually glanced over..
And sure enough(?)..
she was browsing food photos and things like that posted on someone else's SNS..
Normally..
I would have thought, why on earth is she looking at that stuff..
But then a thought suddenly occurred to me..
A photo is a capture of a moment..
That moment.. that food.. that atmosphere..
Since I never cared much for that sort of thing, I never understood why people take those photos, post them,
and do all that..
But when I thought about it carefully..
the writing I do is also, in a way, a capture of a moment..
I capture things that happen in daily life and put them into words..
Some people preserve that in photographs..
and I preserve it in writing — I realized it's really just that difference..
All this time, with such a narrow-minded way of thinking,
I had been judging someone else's form of expression..
I think I've now grown one level..
Even if it did take quite a long time..