Once again an update!
It became October before I knew it, quick isn't it?
How are all of you??

I've been on a movie location in Tsumagoi in the Gunma prefecture until recently.
Since the drama ended I've been in filming the movie "Elevator to the Gallows".
It's a remake of the 1958 French "Elevator to the Gallows" movie, and it has
Kichise Michiko-san (DramaWiki, Blog) in the lead role, and co-actors Abe Hiroshi-san and Tamayama Tetsuji-san.

The original is a really famous French movie,
but I'm at ease doing it without any worries about
the pressure related to that,
or the differences between the original role and my role.

It's really harmonious set, the staff and cast all have faith in the director,
we're kind of tagging along behind him.
Many scenes are filmed in a single long shot this time,
which means, since I like that way of filming,
that I'm once again enjoying a movie set to my heart's content.

Whether I've gotten used to it lately,
or whether it's because with the years I'm not getting as shy as I used to,
but I wasn't all that tense anymore when I went onto a new set.
Looks like I'm genuinely able to enjoy a set now.

And it's not just work lately, thinking argumentatively
about any and everything all over the place and
negative worrying and such have also disappeared.
"I wonder if it's because I'm getting older that it's like this?",
is one of the things I've been thinking. (I'm still young, right...?)

What anyone has experienced during adolescence,
shrinking away when being surrounded by a crowd,
and not being able to look up,
or the unreasonable anxiety of
being left behind by one's peers,
or having an unlimited inferiority complex,
are the kind of delicate feelings that seem to have disappeared completely now.
Aah, they seem so strange the things I was somehow
so embarrassed or worried about at that time.
Time will fix most things eventually, right...?

I now have this sensation of freely
getting used to anything,
and being able to do anything.

You only live once, so enjoy it!

It's that simple.
And perhaps that's all there is to it.
Instead of worrying about things ahead of time,
I'll enjoy the present more for now!
That's the way I've been thinking lately.
It took me quite a bit of time before I could think like that,
but I want to spend my days in a much more positive way nowadays.

The lyrics of the Oasis' song whatever
match my current feelings exactly, so I listen to it a lot lately.

I'm free to be whatever I
Whatever I choose
And I'll sing the blues if I want

I'm free to say whatever I
Whatever I like
if it's wrong or right it's alright

... like that.
oasis is beyond cool.