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2. A baseball superstar from our country, whose team's preseason exhibition game in this year took place in the Capital prefecture in our state, was involved with a terrible trouble last year:
His dedicated interpreter was in serious debt due to gambling addiction, and stealing the Superstar's savings.
When this fact was revealed, at first, some idiots who are too impatient to wait for official investigation rattled on that this Superstar must have been in debt by gambling addiction and used his Interpreter as a scapegoat.
However, after the series of turmoil, this Superstar made unexpected run.
I've read a book by a spiritual-oriented therapist saying that if someone speaks ill of you, God takes away their luck and gives to you.
Today's weblog is based on this idea.
This analyze is not entirely wrong that those ignorant media and gossip-lovers who abused the Baseball superstar offered their luck to him, and it partly assisted his great work since then.

3. Today's title is literal translation of a proverb in our country that means Curses come home to roost.
It seems to be true not only among individuals but also nations.
For rulers, one of the easy ways to evade public discontents and settle general public together is to stir up hostility and superiority complex against imaginary enemy states.
Actually, there is a plain example: Neighboring peninsular nation still clings to sense of victim after colonial reign by ex-Sovereign state.
Reportedly, they still teach at school how their Country was destroyed during Colonial age, until both nations confuse what is truth and what is fabrication.
Now, in the neighboring Peninsular state, decline is appearing gradually, such as extremely low birth rate and high suicide late.
It's mainly because of old-fashioned patriarchy, competitive world, long-hours culture, and so on.
In addition to those factor that ex-Sovereign state must learn from,
Whole nation's luck might have been taken away by abusing other nations, especially ex-Sovering nation.
At the same time... What kind of benefits that ex-Sovereign nation gains by clinging to relationship with this Nation if they abuse them?

4. One of my coworkers is admirably hard worker who works fill-time and go to night grad-school.
But I must confess that I cannot respect the Coworker because of excessive private talking during working hours.
Especially, it's really nuisance when I'm on the phone.
One of the things that the Coworker chats about is classmates in Grad-school.
I heard the Coworker was predicting that three of them would fail.
The reasons sound relevant: One of them is trying to plagiarize the Coworker's thesis, another's thesis is just borrowing textbooks, and anther is just criticizing or accommodating to other students at discussion in seminar.
　I never think a hard-worker like this Coworker will be unable to graduate.
　　Oon the contrary, the Coworker will graduate at the head of the school-year.
At the same time, why doesn't this Coworker speak for themselves?
I pity that this Coworker must be stressed out, as I hear this Coworker and another younger coworker speaking ill of other workers and Boss while they are away.
Then it's natural to guess that they are saying bad things about me behind my back.
But as long as they talk only between themselves, that's fine because their luck is offered to me.
However, it's meaningless if I offer back those luck to them, so that's about it for today.

(Translation: Unable-to-think-up-handle)



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