The first Japanese woman, an outrageous challenge staked on a life!
Thank you, as always, for your support.
Someone who never even held a driving licence is now taking on
thePeking to Paris Motor Challenge, 14,000 km, 37 daysitself.
For the full detail, I would love it if you read this.
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Exactly a month ago, as the shakedown — the test run — ahead of Peking to Paris,
twelve days and 4,600 km from Spain into Morocco:
I entered the Sahara Challenge, and came home from it.
So — now, on towards the real thing! Just as I was firing myself up,
everything came to a sudden, forced stop.
A chronic kidney condition of mine flared up, a fever of 39.5 stayed with me, and I ended up in hospital.
Wanting to move and unable to, day after day left me at a loss.
The time in a life that goes unrewarded
They say a life has its peaks and valleys,
but — “however hard I work, nothing goes anywhere, it’s just spinning wheels!”
“When does it finally pay off for me?”
Have you ever thought that?
Your heart wearing down further and further, your feelings tipping further and further negative …
You know comparing yourself gets you nowhere, but the grass looks greener next door anyway,
and you think — “maybe I really can’t do it.”
You know you should stay positive, know you shouldn’t give up,
and your heart simply refuses to follow!!
I have lived through hours exactly like that myself.
The speech that saved my heart: “Kingkong Nishino” (with the original text)
A little unconventional, and always somewhat more positive than most people —
even I, holding up this huge challenge staked on my life, pushing forward with everything I have,
have had day after day when my heart came close to breaking.
And then, a video by the comedian Akihiro Nishino, of Kingkong, happened to catch my eye on YouTube.
It matched my own situation so precisely
that it landed with an odd rightness, and something in me felt saved — the tears simply came.
| The hands of a clock are interesting — the hour and minute hands cross roughly once every hour.
Around 1:05 they cross, around 2:10 they cross … every hour, they cross — The hour hand gets away clean. What I’m getting at is: before the bell rings, there is a stretch of time that goes unrewarded.that is what it comes down to. I’ve had it. And every one of you will have it too. Because the hands of a clock always cross again. I’m rooting for you. Keep going. |
That was, apparently, a message sent to graduates of Kindai University,
and it felt as though it had been written as a cheer for me alone.
Believing the hands of the clock always cross — I will keep taking this on without giving up
I could believe that, from the heart.
I want you to be there with me when my own hands cross at twelve.
Because it is coming. Without fail, it is coming.
What I drive for is “driving together.”
Someone who has not yet seen success
keeps telling the story of the road towards it anyway.
What view is waiting beyond success — I mean to keep driving to find out, together with
everyone backing me.
I am waiting for you to join in.
You’re welcome to join in as many times as you like!
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