Find Something To Celebrate.
I love celebrating. It's one of the most cheerful and pleasant times in life. However, sometimes I find it hard to celebrate something or be happy for someone when I'm not in that mood. It can make me feel nervous, anxious, or even angry. I definitely cannot find something to celebrate in every moment of my life. So it's quite astonishing that Shackleton and his crew members would bring up something to celebrate every so often in the grimmest situations. They didn't just celebrate the happy moments that occurred during their trip; hardship, too, was changed into a reason to celebrate. And again, what is quite interesting is that the crew members went along with this idea. Like I said, I wouldn't be able to celebrate or cheer even if the leader of my team had encouraged me to. I don't really know whether the crew members were able to do it because of Shackleton's leadership or whether they were just optimists. But either way, I think it's something we(espesially busy Japanese people) need to think about. You can see how there is hardly no joy when you are on the Chuosen or even just walking through Tokyo. Maybe we should try some of the things we saw in Megu's video that we saw the other day:)
Yes, I would love to see you all do some sort of improv to lighten everyone's mood. Maybe around final's time with ICU students.
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