人生“life”には“if”が潜んでいる。

この“if”のタイミングのズレで苦しんでいる人が多い。
このブログでも多くの人が苦しんでいる。
『あの時、こうしていれば･･･』
『あの時、この道を選んでいれば･･･』
『あの時、引き止めておけば･･･』
『あの時、･･･』
･･･
“if”のタイミングのズレで苦しい人生を歩みたくない。
“if”のタイミングを良い方向に向けよう！

私は、今までにタイミングよく命拾いをしたことが3回あり、
今でも鮮明に覚えている。
1回目は、
　小学低学年の時に古井戸に落ちそうになり、
　枯れ木1本で助かったこと、
2回目は、
　小学高学年の時にロケット飛ばし遊びをしていて、
　ガソリン容器に引火してしまったが、
　通りかかった中学生に助けてもらったこと、
3回目は、
　学生時代、夜中に車で帰宅途中、
　居眠り運転をして反対側車線を走っていたが、
　直ぐに気が付いて事なきを得たこと、
である。
タイミングがずれていたら、私はこの世にいなかっただろう。

半世紀以上前に、
ジェイムズ・ボンドの「007は二度死ぬ」という映画があったが、
作者のイアン・フレミングが、
この映画のために松尾芭蕉の俳句に習って、
　You only live twice.
　Once when you're born,
　and once when you look death in the face.
と書いたそうだ。
　『人生を強く意識するのは、
　　生まれたとき、そして死ぬとき、
　　この二回だけである』
という意味だそうだ。
英語の慣用句
「You Only Live Once（人生は一度っきり）」
のもじりだが、
私は、更にもじって、
『I only live three times.』として、
私の上記の経験を
以前に所属していたトーストマスターズクラブのスピーチセッションでスピーチした。

スピーチ条件は
>Collect information about your topic from numerous sources.
>Carefully support your points and opinions with specific facts,
  examples and illustrations gathered through research.
Time: 5-7min. ±30 sec.
となった。

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Good evening fellow members and welcome guest.
Do you know “007(Double O Seven), You Only Live Twice.”?　　

In my case, I only live three times.
In Japanese, “私は三度生きる”.
Tonight, I would like to talk about my experiences “I only live three times”.

Our starting point which exists in this real world began from a miracle.
I was born in 19xx.
It was the probability of 1/hundreds of millions.

And I have overcome many barriers and have been living till today.

However, I had three experiences that I barely escaped death, by the gap of timing.
Even now, I remember it vividly.

The first:
I was walking in the mountain with my friends on the summer vacation of the third grader in an elementary school.
I didn’t notice the old well under much long grass and many withered branches, and I was almost falling into the old well.
Fortunately, I was saved barely with only one withered branch.
And then all my friends pulled up me in a hurry.
I shudder only by remembering the incident.
If the withered branch was thin at that time,　･････
If my weight was heavy at that time,　･････
This is the first experience that God helped me.

The second:
When I was the fifth grader in an elementary school, I got interested in a rocket and was playing rocket play in the yard of my house using collar material such as celluloid and gasoline together with my friends.
I stuffed collar material such as celluloid into the metal sacks of pencils, placed it on the cloth into which gasoline soaked, lighted the rocket, and had flown the rocket.
This rocket flew into the distance very well.　
However, accidentally I kicked away the bottle containing gasoline on foot, and ignited to the gasoline which fell, and then I had been wrapped in the big flame.
Fortunately, the junior high school student who passed by extinguished fire in a hurry.
I was able to make it secret to my parents, without burning my house.
I shudder only by remembering the incident.
If gasoline soaked into my clothes at that time, ････
This is the second experience that God helped me.

The third:
When I was a university student, when returning from my friend's house at midnight by car, I had dozed off, while driving a car.
When I noticed “Ha!”, I was running on the opposite lane.
Fortunately, since there were few cars at midnight and the width of the road was wide comparatively, I was saved.
The next instant, I awoke and my heart throbbed.
I shudder only by remembering the incident.
If the dump truck was coming to the opposite lane at that time, ・・・
This is the third experience that God helped me.

And I am standing here now. 
Yes, I am alive now.
I was born by the probability of 1/hundreds of millions, and I am alive, overcoming various difficulties.
This is a miracle.
Japanese men's life expectancy is about 80 years old, so I will live positively anyhow for at least 20 years.

Ladies and gentlemen!
Let's lead pleasant life positively.
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