Today was the first day of my part-time job. It was actually my first part time job in Japan since I came back from England.

I'd decided to work where I'm frequently exposed to English during my work when I started looking for the part-time job, so I chose my current workplace.

Surprisingly, there weren't people who are the same generation as me. All people working there are one or two older generation than me, so I was a bit surprised at first.

And what I found from working there today was how valuable youth is in many situations, and I've finally realised that.

As I said earlier, it was my first day at the workplace, and like me, this was also the frist day for a man in his late fifties, judging from his appearance.

And what I noticed was people who've been already working there much more frequently and willingly talked to me than they talked to the man.

Even though this man was able to pay more attention to such trivial things than I was, people there were more kind and attentive to me.

What I want to say here is not I'm lucky but how youth is valuable to this society (at least my current workplace) and works unfairly.

Looking back, I have been helped a lot especially here in Japan just because I am young.

Even though I was not capable of something and I was passive in many situations, I didn't need to change my behavior because people just cared me, so everything was easy in many situations.

But today I suddenly thought that if I was not young here, I would surely try hard to engage with others. Because I am not young, and I cannot use youth as a mean to get to know with others if the society value youth.

From my experience where I worked in a restaurant in London, youth didn't feel like a big deal. So that's why I immensely struggled getting close to others and bulding relationships and working proactively cus I'd got used to be passive, being helped by others and being talked to in social situations as well as workplace.

Now I think it shouldn't be okay for me to get used to be often helped by others, doing just what I'm told and not thinking further things that I should do, I will try to do the same things as what adults are required in my workplace.

Because I want to be independent on youth, and at least, people who I've met in the UK think and do what they can do beyond what they were told.