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A Last Word

This "happy-go-lucky bicycle trip" was started by being triggered by an idea suddenly occurred to me while I was cycling on the riverbed cycling road and it was put into action merely based on the vague idea, "I will probably be able to do it".　Once the action was taken, however, everything began to move on by itself like a ball rolling down a slope.　Many obstacles, which were much bigger than I expected, lay on the slope.　The ball has bounced over those obstacles and come back to its starting point called "my home".　It seems that the ball has bounced over those obstacles and come back home by its own effort.　But if you look back calmly upon this trip, you will recognize that the ball could come back home owing to repeated occurrence of good luck and good will of many people.　It was nothing other than good luck that I could have passed through the 9 tunnels in Fukushima safely.　There was a woman who kindly offered her warm hand to me when I was almost frozen to death by night chill in Aomori.　It was also an unknown person who kindly picked me up in his car when I was desperately pedaling the bicycle all wet in the cold rain and completely exhausted on the evening national roadway between Kamaishi and Ofunato.　Without such good luck and good will of many people, the ball might not have been able to come back home again.　As a matter of course, the human being is kept alive by "good luck" that is beyond one's control and owing to good will of many people.　I could reconfirm the importance of the normal daily life, i.e., "It was like that yesterday and so it will be like that today again" in this happy-go-lucky bicycle trip.　I want to express my hearty gratitude to all of those people who have shown their kindness to me in this "happy-go-lucky bicycle trip".　Thanks a lot indeed!

Contemporary Don Quixote

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