As long as you prepare a place in your heart where you can sit and talk at any time, you can be gentle with others.

I have a small table that is just the right size, and that table is right in my heart.

There is also an unadorned, but comfortable chair attached to the table.

As long as I faced that table, I could concentrate and think alone.

In order to think wholeheartedly, I prepared a "space for myself" in my heart. For me, that's the little table in my heart.

Recently, however, the furniture in my mind has increased. I tried to set up a big table where other people could sit, because now I'm learning how to work with people, how to spend life with people. So I made up my mind to have a place where I could sit face-to-face with people at all times.

It's really lonely to be a partner or friend or an important family member who is obviously working with them, but when I talk to them, I'm always multitasking and doing other things. If you are always exchanging a few words when passing by, or standing and chatting, it will be too lonely.

I hope that even if the two sides are standing and communicating, they can compare their hearts, as if they were sitting opposite each other at the big table in my heart. Because of this consideration, I have prepared a table in my heart that I can share with you. I thought to myself, let's sit down and have a good talk.

That table is not limited to two people, it is the size that everyone can gather together and laugh. I also set up a few chairs so that even people I don't know can sit down and talk if they're happy.

It was a pretty big table where people could sit and read, the little ones could do their homework, and the grandmothers could pick out pods.

When I was young, wandering abroad with nothing, I once came across a large table that welcomed me. On that big table, some people were playing cards, some were reading magazines, some were toasting and drinking.

I sit in a corner, knowing that there is a place where I can accept myself at any time. It was a great joy for me to be alone, it made me feel at ease and at ease.

Perhaps because of my youthful experience, when I opened a second-hand bookstore, my first consideration was not how to design the bookshelf, but how to arrange the table. It would be great if guests who wanted to rest could feel a sense of belonging without having to chat even though they didn’t know each other.

After setting a table in my heart, I am always ready to meet people face-to-face, whether I am facing a work object or family and friends.

In addition, I also think that you can be gentle with people by preparing a place in your heart where you can sit and talk at any time.

Of course, I also cherishly reserved a small table of my own. For me, the time to hide and meditate alone is indispensable. That table will always be a one-seater, and I'm not going to share it.

Even so, I set up a large table at the same time, which perhaps means that I have become an adult who needs a living room in addition to a single room.