Thank you everyone for your hard work this week. February has flown by.
The next month will be March, but for some reason the word "March" seems to evoke the warmth of spring. Maybe it's because the pages of the calendars I've come across so far have often shown pictures of flowers basking in the sun.
Well, while I was thinking about such things, I was spending the morning feeling it was still too cold to get out of bed.

Recently, the small sukimas in the kitchen and entrance hall have been so cold that I've been wearing these fluffy slippers I bought at MUJI. They've definitely become my best buy for the winter, because they're so fluffy and cozy and make me want to walk around.
Also, since I often wear them barefoot, I thought it was about time to wash them.
When I scrubbed it with soap, for some reason it became like the stiff bath towel I'd grown.
If you can get that good in just one try, then it's a pretty good bath towel, isn't it? You're a slipper, aren't you? (Aside)


What are you doing first thing on a cold morning wearing those stiff, bath towel-like slippers?
I'm looking for glasses.

I often wear glasses at home, but when my eyesight gets worse, I have to buy new glasses. Well, I could just change the prescription, but glasses are cool and make me feel good. So, I naturally end up with a first-class pair of glasses and a second-class pair of glasses.
To be honest, I hardly ever use my second-string glasses, so they're always in their usual place. I use my first-string glasses a lot, so I take them off before going to bed and leave them there, so I always forget where they are.
So recently, when I wake up in the morning, I often find myself putting on my second-string glasses while searching for my first-string glasses.


If you had to choose one at the end of the drama, would you be happier if you chose the second-string glasses? Or would they just stay in their regular position because they don't have any scenes, and then as soon as they become the main glasses, you'll be free to do whatever you want?
Well, joking aside.


There are many situations in everyday life where we need glasses to find our glasses.
For example, when you decide, "Today I'm going to eat some delicious food at that station that's a little far away!", you eat a small rice ball to give you the energy to get there, or when you're buying clothes at a fashionable clothing store, you suddenly buy an outfit with the feeling, "I've got to give myself 80 points in order to go there."
It made me feel like there was a gap or step between the ideal and reality, and it was a slightly pathetic moment.

Speaking of breadth, there's something cute about people who wait until the last minute to buy everyday items like detergent or toothpaste, but still buy strange objects. I'm sure we can become good friends. (Digression)


Anyway, glasses for finding sunglasses are fine, but glasses for finding glasses should probably just stay with glasses.
If you try to rank things in the same category in order of superiority or inferiority, it will create a sad tendency to think, "It would be nice to have it, but it's okay if I don't have it."


Well, that's about it.
Aren't you all always feeling left behind by my dream-like, incoherent stories? Is everything okay?
This is just a radio transcription of my thoughts, so feel free to disregard it.


Recently, I rewatched director Satoshi Kon's "Perfect Blue" for the first time in a long while.
Those who have seen it will know, but the song that Mima sings at the beginning when she graduates from being an idol and says "Now, please listen to my last song" ("Omoide ni Dakarete Ima") is just too good. It's so amazing that I wish it was played in full during the end credits. I wonder if it's on the soundtrack? I'll have to consider buying it.


Oh, I forgot to talk about Taiwan.
See you next time.


Ocean (Updated 2025.02.28)