{"id":1095,"date":"2020-05-10T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2020-05-10T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:40:04","slug":"1074-glance-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"1074. Glance of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I encounter a colorful gorgeous sunset like this, I feel so happy and have a dream of a wonderful future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariko-irie.com\/glancetomorrow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1074.-Glance-of-Tomorrow_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1096\"\/><\/a><figcaption> &#8220;1074. Glance of Tomorrow&#8221; Oil painting by Mariko Irie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you feel warm lights surrounding you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you get sense of relief?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a peaceful time, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our future will be loving each other, respecting each other, taking care of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do what you have passion for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That leads to our happy world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Mujica is Uruguayan politician who served as the 40th President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 12 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know him till yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I opened Youtube, the title \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 the poorest president in a world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Japanese which attracted me. So I watched the youtube, more and more videos about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While serving as 40th president of Uruguay, he donated around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary to charities that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not poor. Poor doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean having few things, rather, it means having infinite desire, never satisfied, even with having more than enough.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are born naked, and we die naked.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Try to enjoy your life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The miracle of life is maximum happiness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u009dUnfortunately life has a limit. But Love doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that Love, smiles, happiness are contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I encounter a colorful gorgeous sunset like this, I feel so happy and have a dream of a wonderful future. Do you feel warm lights surrounding you? Do you get sense of relief? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a peaceful time, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/?p=1095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paintings-watercolor-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mariko-irie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}