英語検定ライティング準１級（第258回）

懺悔「すまなかった◯◯君という話」

小学生のこどもは残酷だ。他人の痛みを知らないからどんな残酷なことも出来る。だが大人も同じだ。一般庶民の経済事情を知らない国会議員は他人の痛みを知らないまま裏金を集める。
Several children in an elementary school tend to be cruel toward another child because those on the side of bullies couldn’t have any experiences to be bullied, so they might commit everything, but so do someone matured.
Numerous Diet members wouldn’t have any knowledge about ordinary citizens’ economic affairs, so they could collect their precious kickbacks behind our shoulders without any mental pains, an online article says.

小学生だった私たちはある１人の少年を孤独に陥れた。元友人だ。集団で行動する時に彼に声をかけるものは誰もいなかった。彼を放置しても誰も罪悪感を感じることはなかったのだ。
When we were in the elementary school, we brought an ex-friend boy into an extremely lonely situation, where none of us spoke to him with something warmhearted during the collective action, in other words, none of us felt guilty while we left him behind us, to our cruelty.

大学生の時に路上に車を放置していたら駐車禁止が貼られていた。担当警官の印鑑は彼と同姓だった。彼本人だとは限らない。だが彼かもしれないという不安は今でも蘇るのである。
One day, he happened to park his car in the illegal space on the street, when he was a university student, and he came across the parking violation ticket by accident.
There was “his” signature stamp on the car, the name of which forced him to remember the victim’s name, whom we treated in the negative way when we were children.
But we couldn’t demonstrate whether the name was “his” or not, however, the grown-up “he” tried to have a tremendously cruel revenge on us for the first time in ten years, which failed to run away from our head, he says.

何らかのイジメを受けずに一生を終える人間はいない。耐える強さも必要かもしれぬ。身体的苦痛も精神的苦痛も人間から生きる自信を失う。イジメる側の人間も孤独感に苦しんでいる。
None of us spend the whole lifetime without being bullied by someone malicious, at the same time, we should be equipped with mental strengths, but both mental pains and physical injuries could deprive us of our precious self-esteem, which cannot be inevitable without fail.
Those who resort to bully, actually, are likely to suffer from solitude and loneliness, which is inevitable, he says.