Message to the Global Univer-City in Kochi city, Kochi

    Hello. I am Luna, the brain-injured child.
    I have just recently finished two of the five days of my treatment, so I am relaxing a bit, although this is in terms of how I feel. On this occasion, I can get some free time, and sometimes I go to my favorite art museums or to places I want to go. That doesn't mean I can always go, because when I undergo therapy, sometimes it continues until midnight. This way I can meaningfully spend the two periods every year when I am not undergoing any programs.
    Modern people usually say, "I don't have time," but you can always make time, and there can never be no time. Have you ever heard about the moment of death? They say that all the experiences you have lived flash by you like a movie. They say this happens in less than a second. Actually, such phenomena occur frequently in the world. When you say that you have no time and become hasty, time becomes shorter and shorter, and you really do not make it on time. But if you say in your mind, "It's all right, I can surely do it until this time," or "Even if it's late, that moment is the time I will finish it," somehow everything goes well.
    Recently, I use the expression "hurry up slowly" a lot. I use it to mean, "to do something steadily with a relaxed mind." In most cases, people do the opposite, with only their mind in haste, and things then do not proceed smoothly. The concept of time is something very interesting. This time also, after my treatment, my mother went to see someone without contacting them at all. She returned home having met someone she needed to meet, not persons she didn't need to meet. But she was able to complete what she needed to get done. Not even knowing if she could go, she made preparations, brought what the things she needed to deliver, and everything went well. So, please do not give up and say there is no time, but just try and focus your will. Incidentally, on the first day when I was to undergo physical measurement, we were 45 minutes late. But my mother continued to say, "It's absolutely all right," and it turned out to be exactly so. They were late too, and we arrived before we were called. Let us hurry up slowly, without fear or anxiety, without worrying about the time.
    Another bonus topic. Every day different volunteers come to my house, and sometimes they are late. When they apologize, my mother says to them, "This is the time you were meant to come, so you shouldn't be concerned about it." This seems to be more convincing than saying, "That's okay, don't worry about it." Actually, if they are late, there are many things we can do in the period before they arrive, so it's no trouble for us. Please try it yourself, too. But I can't take responsibility if someone gets angry at you for being late.
    Thank you for listening.

From Luna

July 9, 1998

translated by Mayumi Mori & Victor Alexander H Debuque