同窓会
先週末の３連休を利用して中学校の同窓会に参加して来た。場所は松江のしんじこ温泉。
島根県隠岐郡西ノ島町の、今は無き、「黒木中学校」の昭和３８年３月の卒業組。三八会と称し、４２歳の厄年に集まって以後、５年に１度開催してきた。ところが、６０歳の還暦を迎えてからは、５年に１度では次の約束が出来かねる、と将来を危ぶむ声が聞かれ、以後は何となく毎年開催となっている。
同級生は３クラス１２０名。ところが生存者は現在１１０名。男子９名、女子１名が亡くなっている。
このことでも判る様に、兎に角女性は若くて元気。間違いなくおばさんではあるがパワフルで、中学生当時のかれんさ等は面影も無く、男性を圧倒している。大袈裟に云うと、現代の世の中の縮図を同窓会で見たと云う感じであった。
６０歳を過ぎての同窓会は、病気に年金に孫の話と云うのがお定まりの様であるが、我が同窓会もご他聞に漏れずで、集まるやいなや彼方此方で病気の話。それも大半は男性が病気の主人公で、女性は健康法の主人公になっていた。
それにしても癌は多いね。男性の参加者は２２名であったが、内ここ３年以内に癌で手術したのが４人もいた。しかし感心するのは４人が４人、皆が非常に元気で明るく、病を得て更に元気に成ったと云う感じさえする程であった。
病を病気にしない秘術を心得ているようで、非常に頼もしい存在であった。
I took advantage of the three consecutive holidays last weekend to participate in a junior high school reunion. The place is Shinjiko Onsen in Matsue.
The graduation group in March 1963 of Kuroki Junior High School in Nishinoshima-cho, Oki-gun, Shimane Prefecture, which is no longer there. It is called “Sanpachi Kai” and has been held once every five years since it was gathered at the age of 42. Since turning 60, however, some people have said that once every five years is too late to make another commitment, so the event has been held every year for some reason since then.
There are 120 students in three classes. However, there are now 110 survivors. Nine boys and one girl died.
As can be seen from this, women are young and energetic. She is definitely an aunt, but she is powerful, and she overwhelms the men without any trace of her junior high school days. To put it bluntly, I felt that I had seen the epitome of the modern world at the reunion.
At reunions after the age of 60, the topics of illness, pensions, and grandchildren are common, and my reunion is not unheard of. It was also mostly men who were the protagonists of the disease and women who were the protagonists of the health laws.
That said, there’s a lot of cancer. There were 22 male participants, four of whom had been operated on for cancer within the last three years. However, what impressed me was that there were four of them, and they were all so energetic and cheerful that I even felt that they had become even more energetic after their illness.
He seemed to know how to keep the disease away from him and was very dependable.
