終末は忙しかった。
仕事の会食の為に電車で繁華街へ。
本を読んで電車に乗っていると（電車の移動は好き。旅行みたいで。）
そんな最中、LINEが届いた。
なんじゃい？なんて開くと、東京から帰省する懐かしい友人からだった。
翌日の昼間、土産を渡して夕方に一杯やることにした。
他の友人にも声をかけて数人で卓を囲んだ。
いろんな話を聞けた。
声を掛けたいつもの仲間。
高校、大学と学歴なんかは優に及ばず、中途の私は戦えないほどの高学歴。
仕事についてはみんなが知ってる、テレビで見る会社勤務。
それから家電量販店で目にする製品なんかのプロデュース。
設計会社の社長。
私は自営で一度失敗して、しがない商社のサラリーマン。
社畜になりかけている。
とにかく、仕事の話が面白いし、夢見たいな話。
以前は仕事でメディアにも出てた。
話しながら、なんでこんな凄い奴らが周りにいるんだろ。なんて・・・
保育園から一緒。
いじめられっ子といじめっ子。
なぜかウマがあって学生時代の放課後をずっと一緒に過ごした。
確か・・・仮面ライダーの変身ベルトを取り上げられたなぁ。
学生の時、持ってたTOYの単行本もなぜかコイツの本棚にある。
高校の時、女友達から紹介されて付き合うはずだった〇〇ちゃん。
知らないうちにコイツのバイクの後ろに乗ってた。
なんだよ！みんな取られちゃってるじゃん！
一緒にバンドなんかもやったりして。
下手くそで叱られたり、笑われたり。
そんな最中、彼らの甥っ子が、そばにあった誰でも弾けるピアノを弾いてくれた。
あとで聞いたけど、いろんな賞を取っているらしくプロ級の腕前。
周りの人は凄すぎて唖然としていた。
気がついた！
思い出した！
コイツらみんな天才だった！
楽しい天才たちとのひと時。
コイツらの爪の垢でもあやかって、頑張っていこ。
おしまい
The weekend was busy.
I took the train to downtown for a business dinner.
I was reading a book on the train (I like traveling by train. It feels like a trip.)
In the middle of that, I got a LINE message.
What is it? I opened it and it was from an old friend who was visiting from Tokyo.
The next day, I gave him a souvenir and we decided to meet for a drink in the evening.
I called out to some other friends and we sat down at a table.
I heard all kinds of stories.
The usual group of people I called out to.
I didn’t have a high school or university education, so I was not very educated, and I was not able to compete with them as a mid-career employee.
I worked for a company that everyone knew about, that you see on TV.
Then I produced the products you see in electronics stores.
The president of a design company.
I failed once as a self-employed person, and now I’m just a humble businessman at a trading company.
I’m on the verge of becoming a corporate slave.
Anyway, his stories about work are interesting and dreamy.
He used to appear in the media for work.
As we talked, I wondered why there were such amazing people around him. What…
We’d been together since kindergarten.
The bully and the bullied.
We got along well for some reason and spent all our after-school days together.
I’m sure… he took my Kamen Rider transformation belt.
For some reason, the TOY comics I had as a student are also on his bookshelf.
In high school, a female friend introduced me to a girl who was supposed to be my girlfriend.
Unbeknownst to me, I was riding on the back of his bike.
What the heck! Everyone’s been taken!
We even played in a band together.
I was scolded and laughed at for being terrible at it.
In the midst of all this, their nephew played a piano for me on the nearby piano, which anyone can play.
I heard later that they had won various awards and were professional-level skilled.
The people around me were stunned at how amazing they were.
I realized!
I remembered!
These guys were all geniuses!
A fun time with these geniuses.
I’ll try my best and take inspiration from the dirt under their fingernails.
The end
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