My Japanese relatives, aunt Takako and uncle Eimei sent me a gift recently !
There were two items with aunt Takako's hand written message letter in the box, when I opened it.
Hand written letters always make me feel warm.
Since last year, I stopped doing hand writing letters and started using digital writing by computer when I sent messages to my relatives who live in Japan.
It looked cold, but it's convenient when I made an error, I can easy to edit it and fix it.
But from now on, I want to hand write it by myself again.
One of their gifts to me is Miso soup.
Very creative and unique.
I've never seen this kind of miso soup.
Another one is a special stamp book which is the image of beautiful Mr.Fuji, which is limited quantities.
I love both of their gift items but what made me delighted even more may be their sweet consideration to me.
Taking an action for choosing the item, imagining what I may like.
It's from love, action from love always make me inspired and touches my heart.
Uncle Eimei is my mother's younger brother and Uncle Eimei and his wife aunt Takako are my closest relatives who have been friendly and keeping contact with me since I was a little kid.
They are 45 years marriage, lovebird couple.
When we are little kids, everything is new and so the environment we were in and the people we see, influences our mind, thinking and future.
Besides seeing my aunt Takako and Uncle Eimei's relationship, I had the opportunity to grow up in an environment with four married couples, they were -
my mom and my dad,
my dad and my step mother,
my dad's brother uncle Fukuji and his wife aunt Chieko,
my mom and my step father.
Unfortunately, these marriage couples were not ideal relationships.
And I loved to read many fantasy stories or cartoons with the theme of love stories, I adored to have these kinds of love relationship which I read in the stories.
But in reality, there were no married couples who I felt adorable except Uncle Eimei and aunt Takako.
Most of the cases, I wondered in reality , is it hard to have great healthy marriage life ? because most marriage couples I saw at that time were not really lovebird couples.
So, it was very fortunate that there was such a happy married couple among my relatives.
Usually childhood memories influence our future forever, so environment , and what we are seeing is very important.
If there was no happy marriage couple like them around me when I was a little kid, I might not have had a desire to marry.
I'm thankful they have been inspiring me for a long time.
Hopefully, more happy marriage couples who are full of love will increase in the world.