CRAZYTANK News vol.215／“Let's look at the things that never change.”

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CRAZYTANK News vol.215

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The children of CRAZYTANK members have finally started school after a long (?) summer break. There is a phrase that we tell them to keep in mind when they feel stressed or anxious in their daily lives in school, which is a social environment for them. We would like to introduce these words and write about the “axis” that we should cherish as we live in today's extremely fast-paced world of change.

Please read on.

“Let's look at the things that never change.”

Many children are probably starting a new school year after their summer vacation ended last week and this week. Since many of our members' children have been on summer vacation for the past month, we often talked about their homework and how they spent their summer vacation at our meetings.

When the new term begins, children will once again adjust their bodies to the rhythm of school and accumulate a variety of experiences in their daily school life.

As they live in a group, they will experience more or less every day things that do not go their way or do not agree with them as they do at home. For children, it is an appropriate and important process to grow into adults while gaining experience in social life, but each time it happens, there are times when they are overloaded and distressed.

At such times, we try to give the children words that are important to us within CRAZYTANK members.

“Let's take a good look at what hasn't changed.”

This is a phrase.

Children are required to adapt to various changes every day in the society known as school. In addition to the content of classes, school events, class events, and relationships with friends, a constant stream of events occur on a daily basis, and it is almost impossible for anything to remain unchanged.

Change, whether large or small, naturally brings with it stress.

That is why we try to tell children that at such times, it is important to restore peace of mind and calm their own state of mind by looking at “what does not change” or “what remains the same”.

For example, taking children as an example, the “things that never change” that easily come to mind would be “the existence of family” and “things that they love.

Even when they have a bad day at school, the children told us that they feel strangely okay when they think of their families back home. (They also said that they sometimes miss their families while they are at school...)

We believe that the children are growing up and facing various burdens and stresses on a daily basis while regaining peace in their own hearts.

Although I have used elementary school children as an example, this story applies just as much to us adults.

If you read the above not as a child but as an adult, you may find some overlap with your own daily life.

Today, in particular, the speed of daily social change is overwhelmingly faster than it was a few years ago. Technologies that were considered “state-of-the-art” until yesterday may be innovated overnight, or a job that used to take a week until last year can now be done in a matter of hours thanks to the advent of AI.

Even if you can't imagine a future in which AI will be able to do most of the human work, it is not unusual for you to feel stress and vague anxiety before you even realize it because you are living in an era of high-speed change, and everyone is naturally “experiencing an era of high-speed change” just by being in the midst of this daily pace of social change. It is not surprising that we may feel stress and vague anxiety without even being aware of it.

We believe that the prescription for this vague sense of uneasiness is to have your own “things that never change for you“.

It can be “something you like in a geeky way,” “a habit you have decided to keep,” or “someone important to you“!

Even in the midst of (and because of) high-speed change, we believe it is important to hold firmly in one's heart what remains the same for oneself, and to learn how to live in harmony with one's own sense of insecurity.

We encourage everyone to take another look at what is important to you that will never change as your “axis“.