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ご覧いただきありがとうございます。

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2022.10.19。TOEICの日も近づいてきました！

そういえば先日の第300回TOEICの結果が届きました。
くむろぐにて私のスコアを公開しています！
見ないでくださいッ！

今回は、元プロレスラーの小橋建太さんの本「今日より強い自分になる（ワニブックス）」から、特に心に響いた部分の一つを英訳してみました。
全日の頃からずっとファンなんですッ

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P128～129
「ジェラシーを抱かない、自分を蔑まない」

Be stronger than you are today

Not being jealous of others and not despising yourself

Incidentally, it was common at that time for university graduates who joined the company to be posted to the head office rather than to a factory. In other words, there was no need to worry about being assigned to factory work, which required a lot of heavy lifting, from the very beginning.

Some colleagues complained about this. "They're good, aren't they?" But I was not at all jealous of university graduates. I would never complain.
Because I thought it was wrong for a member of society to complain when you are still a new graduate and have not yet been able to do a job commensurate with your wages, and when you are being brought up by the company.

Besides, university graduates have been in school for four years longer than I have. They are four years older than me, so naturally they have a lot of experience.

They have studied more, lived longer and have more experience than me. It would be absurd to ask them to be treated on the same level as me, and it is only natural that there is a 'gap' or 'distinction' between them when they join the company.

University graduates have a lot of things that high school graduates don't have. That reality has to be firmly understood and accepted.

Hence, feeling a strange sense of jealousy and sulking by yourself will not solve anything and will not be good for you. As a result, you cannot grow as a member of society.

That's why I have never looked at university graduates and thought that they are better off than me.

I was honestly envious of the experiences they had that I didn't have, but I didn't think anything of the fact that they started from a different starting line, in other words, that they were one step ahead of me.

As a member of society, I have no achievements, so the company's only criterion for judging me is my educational background, so it's only natural that there is a difference between us.

But that doesn't mean that it will continue for the rest of my life.

I thought that after I actually started working, I could overtake them with my effort and work performance, and that I should work hard to achieve that.

If you despise yourself because you are a high school graduate, you may never be able to make up the difference that was made at the start.

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私の蔵書「今日より強い自分になる」からでした。
今も事あるごとに、書棚から引っ張り出して読んでます！

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人は人、我は我。
こういった哲学の道にも通じそうです。
周りは関係なく、自分がどうありたいのか？
自分との対話を大切にしたいと思います。

最後までお読みいただきありがとうございました。
この記事があなたのお役に立ちましたら幸いです！
ではノシ

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