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小さな交流/Little Communication

 よく仕事をしに行くカフェで、挨拶だけする男性がいます。ご年齢は80代かな? その彼が、先日珍しく孫娘のことを話し始めました。

 医者を目指していること、随分出来の良い高校に入学が決まったこと。お孫さんのおじいさんとして嬉しかったのでしょうね、色々話してくださいました。わたしについても、何をしているのかを訊かれたので、日本以外の国で日本に関する(主に)テレビを作っているんですと答えました。

 もう一年以上挨拶を交わしているけれども、お互いのことを話したのは初めてでした。なんだか嬉しい交流でした。

There is a man at the cafe I go to work often. He must be in his 80s. He started to talk about her granddaughter the other day, which was very uncommon for us.

He told me she tried to be a doctor when she is older. She was accepted to a high school even I have heard about (since I am not originally from Tokyo, I am not familiar with schools in the area). He should be really happy as a grandfather and told me quite a lot about him. He also asked what I did for living so I told him I produced mainly TV shows filmed in Japan but for different countries.

It's been more than a year since we started to say good morning but it was the first time to talk about ourselves. It was a nice little moment of communication.