Bedridden and addicted to TV dramas
Until last year, I used to frequent the movie theaters in Hibiya or Roppongi during the New Year’s holidays.
There were so many movies to watch at the theaters.
This year, I finally gave up and subscribed to online movies.
This year-end, I’ve been bedridden, watching films.
I also leave the TV news on, and I heard that former President Carter passed away at the age of 100.
Although President Carter wasn’t highly evaluated during his tenure, his peace efforts after his retirement were widely praised.
I thought that after retirement, I would go around movie theaters or art museums in a wheelchair, but with a computer in bed, I can read newspapers, watch movies, and enjoy my favorite American crime dramas.
However, being bedridden weakens the legs and muscles.
Lately, I’ve been reading books in bed.
On my bedroom desk, there are books I plan to read next and ties spread out.
Once I get used to this, I think it could apply to hospital life as well.
I don’t have any busyness or nostalgia at the end of the year.
I just have the solitary but fulfilling business of life.
Since it’s a life I chose, I have no regrets, but I do miss and envy the New Year’s gathering with family.
It feels like a distant memory when I went to Meiji Shrine with my family on New Year’s Eve.
I’m using the heating in my bedroom, but maybe because of my age, the cold really gets to me.
Is it self-imposed house arrest or confinement?
I’m grateful that I don’t have to be bored right now.
It’s been one year since the Noto earthquake.
Was this the right way?
Blood sugar: 163. Vegetable juice, fruit juice, jelly, walnuts. This is monk-like discipline.
Yasunari Koyama
CEO, Koyama G
President, Thunderbird
Vice President, Health Station