Recording Experiences 〜”毎日1秒”プロジェクトから考える自分記録とは？

Hello Fruitful Community, Tara here for the November post!

How has everyone been enjoying this extended warm autumn weather? It feels a little strange to me, but at the same time, I’m really enjoying it. The crisp cool air with warm daytime temperatures puts me in a good mood as the colors of fall change the scenery.

”毎日1秒”とは？

Anyway, this month, I wanted to write about a new TED Talk that I watched recently.

It’s a talk by Cesar Kuriyama entitled “One Second Everyday”. Kuriyama shares about how he decided to take a professional sabbatical to work on a new creative project. He was disappointed to find that he couldn’t remember the things that he did on a day-to-day basis even though he experienced a great deal. Therefore, he started an initiative to record and keep one second of his day every day for the rest of his life. He puts it into a movie connecting the one second from each day, and the images help him to recall what he has done. In this way, he can remember his experiences – good or bad.

https://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

What do you think of this initiative?

For me, I was really fascinated by it. As I get older, I find that my mind is less focused than when I was younger. While I have an elephant’s memory every time my husband does something I don’t like, I cannot always remember what I had for dinner the previous night (for example). So, the idea of capturing one second of my day is interesting.

私の大切な記録

On the other hand, I’m not necessarily an image-oriented person. I write in a journal almost everyday and have done so since I was eight-years-old. In this way, I think that I have been capturing my life. I have shelves full of my old diaries. Occasionally, I read back on some of them and laugh. Thus, I feel almost as if I have been doing this one-second a day concept for a many years already – just in written form.

記録の仕方はそれぞれ。大事なのは？

No matter what form is used, I agree with Kuriyama that remembering our experiences makes us more appreciative of the life we have. Often, we can think to ourselves that we haven’t done much and wish that we led more exciting lives. These days, social media makes us question our regular experiences as there is a tendency to compare with others based on how many ‘likes’ or ‘views’ one gets.

Therefore, I like this idea and have downloaded an app to see what I make over the next month. If it brings me some joy, then I might continue on.

What about you? Is this something you might do too?

~ Tara

覚えよう！今日のVocabulary

・entitled (vb): This is the verb form referring to the naming (title) of an article, person, etc.

“My favorite book is by a Russian author entitled ‘The Idiot’.”

・sabbatical (n): This is a period of paid leave usually taken by educators, but also some companies allow this time off to research or study, travel for professional development.

“Every seven years, I take a sabbatical traveling to generate ideas for my next novel.”

・an elephant’s memory (phrase): This phrase refers to the natural need for elephant’s to have good memories as they live a long time and must survive in the wild.

“My mother has an elephant’s memory when it comes to remembering historical events.”

・capturing (vb): This refers to the act of recording things in either words or pictures.

“One difficulty in photographing animals is capturing them in action.”

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Tara

アメリカ育ちで日本で９年間英語を教えた経験あり。日本以外にもAbu Dhabiでも英語を教えていたベテランの先生です。 ヨガを教える資格も持っていてとてもアクティブで、「諦めずに頑張って」とモチベーションをくれる指導スタイルで人気。
座右の銘は「We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit」。