It is said that we should call it happiness that we have such an important thing that makes us sad if we lose it.

Sumire

"I'm happy now because I have a daughter," the heroin of NHK serial TV drama, "Beppin-san" continues and encourages the wife of a foreign interpreter who expresses concern about becoming a mother. People often say that happiness is such a thing that they don't know until they lose it or that they can live without thinking about. But thinking like the above title makes us take our current life as full of happiness. From a shot televised on 22nd. 

October 29,  2016

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun