Calm before the storm
It is often said that it is the calm before the storm.
I’ve been obsessed with this anxiety lately.
This year, even though it’s extremely hot, I haven’t seen any insects.
This year, I haven’t seen a single mosquito or cockroach.
I think the sound of cicadas was also for a short period of time.
Isn’t the reason insects don’t come out above ground because they can predict earthquake disasters?
I think there was such a theory.
The calm before the storm reminds me of the time when the real estate bubble burst about 35 years ago.
This was around the time when the hospital in Ginza was successfully rebuilt, and I was invited to work on a local nursing care project and began traveling around the country.
Many of Ginza’s long-established stores also owned small buildings as their main stores.
The department stores that make headlines today were at the height of their prosperity and had branches all over the country.
Since Ginza’s long-established stores opened in department stores, the number of branches naturally increased as the department stores developed.
The long-established store in Ginza and the department store were both expanding nationwide.
The real estate bubble had already stopped, but I think it took quite a while for it to go bankrupt.
During that period, the atmosphere in Ginza was quiet.
Can you say it’s an economic calm?
Even during the past global recession, the atmosphere was booming until just before that, and that is why stock prices suddenly plummeted.
The recent worldwide decline in stocks and real estate amid inflation is also worrisome.
The reason why I went to remote mountainous areas and Seto Inland Sea farther than Tokyo was because of the fear of the Great Kanto Earthquake due to the sinking of Japan by Sakyo Komatsu.
After that, for some reason it didn’t happen in Tokyo, and I encountered a series of earthquake disasters in Tohoku and Tottori where the facilities were built.
That experience led to the founding of the Disaster Welfare Support Network, Thunderbird.
I hope it’s not the calm before the storm.
Storm, come! Earth, cry!
I think this was a line from Shakespeare.
Was it Christ, Muhammad, or the Three Sacred Treasures that calmed the raging sea?
Anyway, in the silence, my anxiety increases.
This is one of the reasons why I went to church and graduate school and earned a master’s degree in Christian comparative philosophy of religion.
Now I just pray to God.
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