I have many scary memories, and this is one of those stories.

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I think it was around the time I started college.

Friend: "Like you said, I'm trying to think a lot about social issues right now.

Ebata: "Oh. What kind?

Friend: "No, I was walking around town and I got solicited. What can I say, I'm attending a meeting about those issues"

Ebata: "What...?"

Friend: "God? I saw a video that said, "I need to start believing in God, or something like that. I think I come to understand what you said"

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There is a saying "I was turning white"

At that moment, I experienced those words for the first time in my life.

Is that me? Who made him what he is ? It is me ?

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After that,

"What I want to say is not that, but that you should read newspapers, read books, listen to the opinions of people who agree and disagree with you, and finally think for yourself..."

I kept trying to persuade him.

Anyway, in case you don't know what I'm talking about right now, but, can you please stop going to those meetings again?

If you're going to that meeting, I'll never see you again.

"Right here, right now, you can accept me or not"

I pressed him to be prepared.

He seemed to understand only that 'Ebata was talking about something very honest and serious.

It was also fortunate that he hadn't been attending many meetings yet, so the subject never came up with us again.

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I believe that the idea that "all means and ideas that try to solve the world's problems at once are somehow wrong" is "not wrong".

The other day, I counted the essays I have contributed to EE Times Japan and found out that I have contributed at least 139 essays in the last 8 years.

If there was only one way or idea that could solve the problem, then my 139 columns would have been unnecessary.