英語検定ライティング準１級（第608回）

早見和真「イノセントデイズの話」

孤独な自分を否定せずに取り巻く状況に左右されない生き方が出来ればいい。だがピンチに陥った時に毒が吐ける相手が欲しい。構ってくれる他者がいることは幸福だ。だから家族という単位があるのだろう。教えてくれる図書に出会うことがある。

We tend to find ourselves someone unfortunate when we don’t have anyone else to talk with around us, however, we should deny these suggestions because we shouldn’t depend on our surroundings too much, although there are numerous and countless people against our attitudes and behaviors, and we must accept such circumstances.
It might be because the situations we face cannot fail to bring us into the deadly and critical conditions, she says.
Simultaneously, we should realize that we cannot but be one of the right offenders towards other people, he says.
However, it must be something respectable that we need someone who absolutely accepts what we are, in other words, we cannot put up with solitude and loneliness, so we must consider ourselves as someone fortunate when we could find a companion with something considerate.
In short, we should complain about someone who tends to attack ourselves with something unreasonable when we are in the frightening and threatening positions, and it must be necessary to have a listener around us, he says.
After all, a family should be the most valuable and vital unit which could rescue us from something unendurable.
We sometimes encounter a book which makes us escape from something unpersuasive, and it enables us to feel comfortable as if we were with someone sensible, which makes positive contributions to us mentally, he assumes.