I Wonder Where I Will Be a Year From Now — Watching the People Around Me at Eden no Sono — 2026/6/4 (Thu) R8

It has been a little over one month since I moved into Eden no Sono in Matsuyama.

When I first arrived, I was busy learning the basics of daily life.

Where is the dining room?

How do I use the shuttle bus to the hospital?

What time does the bath close?

There was so much to learn.

Recently, however, I have found myself paying more attention to the people around me.

There is a 91-year-old woman who actively joins both the mahjong class and the exercise programs.

During a stick-balancing exercise, she smiled and said, "I can do it better with two fingers than with my whole hand."

Her willingness to keep trying left a strong impression on me.

There is also a man who spends much of the day walking through the hallways.

I see him in the morning.

I see him again in the afternoon.

And I often see him still walking in the evening.

He does not seem to attend the exercise classes or group activities.

Walking appears to be his personal routine and his own way of staying active.

Another man spends time alone in the table tennis room.

He practices serving over and over again, hitting ball after ball until they are gone.

Watching him, I feel that he must have his own goals and his own rhythm.

A few days ago, I saw two women in their eighties standing in front of a bulletin board.

They were trying to understand a notice about customer harassment.

Neither of them seemed familiar with the term, but they carefully read it together and discussed what it meant.

Their desire to understand something new was inspiring.

There are many different people here.

Some play mahjong.

Some walk.

Some practice table tennis.

Some join exercise classes.

Some carefully read every notice on the bulletin board.

Each person spends their days in their own way.

As for me, I have recently started spending time with brain-training puzzles, an old Registered Salesperson study book, and even a soroban.

These are not activities I would have imagined myself doing years ago.

And yet, I enjoy them.

Of course, there are many things I cannot do well.

The Eden exercise classes taught me that I had underestimated how difficult some things can be.

What I thought would be easy turned out to be surprisingly challenging.

Still, that discovery itself has become part of the fun.

As we grow older, each of us seems to find our own way of moving forward.

Some people walk.

Some people play table tennis.

And I continue trying new things, even when I am not very good at them.

I sometimes wonder where I will be a year from now.

How will I see the people around me then?

And what kind of daily life will I be living?

It was a quiet thought that came to me today.

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