運転免許更新
今日の午前中は、自動車運転免許の更新講習であった。
朝９時半からの講習で、出社すると直ぐに講習会場に向かった。会場着９時２８分（時間ギリギリは小生の得意技）、受付を済ませ席の番号札を貰い、席に着くや否やビックリ仰天！！。
講習の教官とおぼしき人がツカツカっと近づいて来た、その途端、オーと驚きの声を上げてしまった。教官とおぼしき人は、バカ、シッと云う感じで、そのまま教官席に付き、マイク片手に講習を開始した。
何とその教官、小生の高校の同級生で、結構仲の良かったヤツであった。高校を卒業し府警に勤務したのは知っていたが、まさか、こんな形で再会するとは・・・奇遇と云うか縁と云うか、何か不思議なものを強く感じた。
そう云えば、大分前にこのブログに投稿した記憶があるが、大阪の映画館で中学、高校と６年間席を同じくした同級生にバッタリ会った事があった、本当に世の中は広くて狭い、とつくづく思う。
だって、日本海にポツリと浮かぶ隠岐の島からこの広い大阪に出て来ていて、バッタリ顔を合わせるなんて、不思議としか云いようが無い。縁と云うのはそんなものなのか？。
出会いとか縁と云うものは、出来るだけ大切にしなければ・・・今日はつくづくそんな事を感じさせられた。
In the morning today, I had a course to renew my driver’s license.
As soon as I arrived at the office, I went to the training center for the 9:30am class. I arrived at the venue at 9:28 a.m. (just in time is my speciality), and as soon as I was given a numbered ticket for my seat, I was astonished!
The person who appears to be a training instructor approached me with a jerk, and as soon as he did, I let out a surprised cry of “Oh”. The guy who looked like an instructor said something stupid and got to the instructor’s seat and started the lecture with a microphone in his hand.
The instructor was a classmate of mine from my high school and we were pretty good friends. I knew that he had worked for the prefectural police after graduating from high school, but I never thought that we would meet again in such a way… I felt something strange strongly.
As I remembered in this blog a long time ago, I bumped into a classmate of mine at a movie theater in Osaka who had been sharing a seat with me for six years, and it made me realize how big and small the world really is.
I can’t help but say that it’s a wonder that we came to Osaka from the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan and bumped into each other. Is that what karma is all about?
Today, I was made to feel that I should cherish encounters and fate as much as possible.
