It has been a long time since I stopped watching high school baseball. I think it started when I remembered that high school students used to look like adults, but suddenly I remembered that young kids were forced to play. I used to think it was cool, but games under the hot sun, shaved heads, enforced discipline. I began to feel that these things were prehistoric and, more importantly, pitiful.
Koshien seems to be more of a spiritual tournament than a baseball tournament. I have always disliked spiritualism and have always regarded adults who preach it as the enemy. I have also always felt very suffocated to be in places where such places dominate, such as schools, companies, and communities.
I dislike self-help books because I believe that the mind does not and cannot change, and I have come to believe that “I feel changed” and “I feel energized,” and have named them “books that make me feel better” and “business that makes me feel better.
When a person is truly and fundamentally changed, he or she can never go back to the way he or she was, and will never come back. Just like a person who has suffered a terrible psychological shock or has believed in one religion or another, as is being talked about now.
Perhaps the reason why high school baseball is so popular is because society as a whole likes high school baseball, and by extension, high school ball players who are steeped in spiritualism.
In other words, I think it is because they see a model for the kind of society they want to be a part of.
In reality, I hear that no matter how weak the baseball team is, those who have been captains have no trouble finding jobs. In fact, such people rise in the ranks.
The discomfort, enthusiasm, and excitement felt at Koshien. As long as this is popularized and gets high viewer ratings, the society dominated by that mentality will never change. And then there are the Olympics.
As was the case with a high school baseball player who had to give up his professional career due to a fatal injury caused by overthrowing at Koshien, as was discussed some time ago, the deaths of office workers due to overwork will not disappear from society.
High school baseball and death from overwork. This may be a bit of a leap, but I think they are actually connected by a spiritual principle.
And for those who have strayed from that path, or those who want to live without mentality, it is difficult to find a way to break through that blockage.
Then again, the new and grating mentality of “making money” and “healing” will come in to play. And then, for a while, they make you feel like you can do it, and end up taking your money.
Of course, if you are happy to be taken in, that’s fine. There is no need or right for other people to say anything about it.
As Osamu Dazai said, in order not to be deceived by various mentalisms, it may be just right to try things with a feeling of “I’m going to stick it out a little bit, even when I think it’s hopeless.
There is no need for exaggerated spiritualism. You can try to live and work with a bit of persistence, even while you are feeling a bit of a mess and thinking, “Oh, no, I can’t do this.
If it really doesn’t work out, run away or give up, that’s about right.
If you are going to become a monk anyway, you might as well become a monk and get a much more peaceful feeling.
See you later.
