Friday, June 5, 2026

How great they are

My trip to fjords in Norway was splendid.  It was my best travel ever in my life. 
Not exaggerated...if you go there, you can feel it.  I took a lot of pictures there and still not enough.  I felt even an ancient like civilization from the size of their scale of nature.  How much Norwegians make efforts to keep its beauty?  I saw some construction site on the way for making splashing water on the rock when I was on the bus to Voss.  Are they artificial or a part of it?  Whatever, they look too great.  Whether God made it or humans made it, it doesn't matter for me.  I even felt that I was from the developing country?  

It's not because their payment system for ride was surprising, but it's because they are smart enough to do things.  Not just scenery, I thought they don't do things in vain.  Their population is very small but how they can keep all things so tidy?  We Japanese do many useless things using a lot of time, money, and labor.  Of course it's because our things are interfered by other countries, yet why we are so stupid?  To this extent, I felt that we are dumped...

"Lost in Translation" is now our words.  We have to catch up.  Not only Japan but US too, unfortunately.  They are too advanced and we are very behind.  I heard my great grandpa had been overseas and I was imagining it must be America.  That idea has changed.  Europe is closer than America.  8-9 hours by airplane over Norway, 14 hours to east side of America.  Maybe before 1900, they must have used ships so that Europe was more possible than US.  And when US was built?  So my great grandpa must have been in Europe.  That's my new idea.

My troubles seem nothing toward their greatness.  How great their land is!