Greg Schwen って名前を知ってる人
日本にどの位いるんでしょうね。
多分ゼロに近いと想像しますがどうでしょうか?
ただこの人
私に取っては一番身近に感じるアメリカ人です。
私はアメリカの歌手や俳優
またスポーツ選手もほとんど知りませんが
この人は良く知ってるのです
まぁもちろん私が勝手に身近に感じてる
って話であって
相手もそう思ってるって訳ではありませんよ
この人は私の事はもちろん全く知りません
何でこの人に親しみを感じるかと言うと
長く彼が書いた文章を読んでるからです
多分10年以上読んでますね
もしかしたら20年近くになるかも知れません
どうして彼の文章を読むようになったか?
って言うと定期的に英字新聞にコラムを投稿してるからです。
そして
何でこの人の文章を読み続けてるか?
って言うと
それは私たちが普通知らない別の英語が詰まってるからです。
この人の書く文章は
難解で私はこれほど長く読んでるのに
未だに苦戦しながら読んでいます。
どんな文章かと言えば
笑いを取る文章です
この人スタンディングアップコメディアンですから
日本で言えばお笑い芸人って事になります
ただ日本のお笑い芸人と基本的に違うのは
主に企業の研修のために呼ばれるコメディアンです。
ちょっと日本では想像できませんよね。
ですから私も感覚的には彼の仕事は理解できませんが
この面白くて難解な文章がまるで違う惑星の言語に見えて
頑張って読んでる訳です。
頑張っても未だに理解できない文章も多いのですが
面白い事に
これだけ長く読んでると
文章は理解できなくても
彼の私生活は理解できます。
そしてその私生活の中でも
彼がひた隠しにしてる事
これも見えて来るのです。
具体的には
彼は一切語りませんが
最近奥さんと離婚したか別居してますね
そして出て行ったのは奥さんではなく彼です
それと子供たちとも縁が切れた状態になってると思います。
何で本人が語らないのにそれが分かるか?
って言うと
逆に語らないから分かるのです。
具体的には
彼の以前の文章には
奥さんとの会話の話とか
娘さんの事とか
良く出て来たのです。
それと自宅の事も頻繁に書いていました
ガレージに使わないソファーが積んであってホコリを被ってるとか
ペットの話も多かったすね。
ところが
もう一年位から
その類の話を一切書かなくったのです。
だからはっきり分かるのです
私生活で異変があったって事が
彼が離婚した話はネットで調べても出てきませんから
アメリカ人も知らない人が多いと思いますが
不思議な事に
私のように長年その文章を読んでると
東京の郊外の零細不動産屋でありながら
分かってしまうのです。
この話
毎日ブログを書いてる身としては背筋が寒くなりますよね
実際に私自身も頻繁に妻の事とか孫の事
あるいは自宅の庭で酒を飲んでる話とか書いていますが
私のブログにその類に話が一切出てこなくなったら
多分私も妻と子供たちに家から追い出された
そう思って間違いありません。
ですから
文章は書かない部分に真実がある
こんな側面があるのです。
最近はブログを書いてる不動産屋は激減しましたが
ネットの黎明期には無数の不動産屋がブログを書いてましよね。
大半は文章を書くのが苦痛になり
止めて行く訳ですが
中には会社が儲かってる感を強調しながら
頑張って長く書いていたのに
いきなりブログの更新が止まる
そんな社長さんたちもたくさんいましたね。
これもひた隠しにしてた業績の悪化
これがにっちもさっちも行かなくなり
ブログを書くどころか
自分自身が逃げる事まで考えてる訳です。
そんな訳で
毎日ブログを書くと言う事は
いくら繕って書いても
実際には書かない部分で実態を晒しますので
格好つけても意味が無い
ブロガーの皆さんは心に止めましょうね。
私のブログが途切れる事があったら
私の健康に異変があるか
会社が潰れる寸前
その可能性がありますから
皆さんそんな意味でも
頑張って読んでくださいね。
I wonder how many people in Japan know the name Greg Schwen.
I imagine it's probably close to zero,
But he is the American I feel closest to.
I know quite a few American singers, actors, or athletes, but I know this guy very well.
Of course, I'm unliterary saying that I feel close to him,
that doesn't mean that he feels the same way.
He doesn't know me at all, of course.
The reason I feel close to him is because I've been reading his writings for a long time.
I've been reading them for over 10 years, maybe even closer to 20 years.
Why did I start reading his writings?
Because he regularly submits columns to English newspapers.
And why do I continue to read his writings?
Because they are full of a different kind of English that we don't normally know.
His writings are difficult to understand, and even though I've been reading them for so long, I still struggle to read them.
What kind of writing is it?
It's writing that gets laughs.
He's a stand-up comedian, so in Japanese terms, he's a comedian.
However, what makes him fundamentally different from Japanese comedians
is that he's a comedian who is mainly invited for corporate training.
It's hard to imagine in Japan, right?
So even though I can't intuitively understand his work,
I'm trying my best to read these funny and difficult writings,
which seem like a language from another planet.
Even though I try my best,
there are still many sentences I can't understand,
but the interesting thing is,
after reading for so long,
I can understand his private life even if he didn’t write about it at all
I can see the things he hides.
Specifically,
he won't talk about it,
he recently divorced or separated from his wife.
And it wasn't his wife who left their home
it was him.
I also think he's cut off ties with his children.
How can I know this when he doesn't talk about it?
I can tell because he doesn't talk about it.
Specifically,
his previous writings often talked about conversations with his wife and his daughter.
He also frequently wrote about his home,
such as the unused sofa piled up in the garage and covered in dust, and about his pets. However, about a year ago,
he stopped writing about those kinds of things.
So it's clear that something strange was happening in his private life.
I can't find any information about his divorce on the Internet,
so I think many Americans don't know about it,
but strangely,
because I read his writings for many years l
even though I'm a small real estate agent in the suburbs of Tokyo, I can tell it confidently
This story sends chills down my spine as I myself writes a blog every day.
In fact, I often write about my wife, my grandchildren, or drinking in the garden at home,
but if those kinds of stories stopped appearing on my blog,
you are sure my wife and children would have kicked me out of the house too.
So there is an aspect to writing where the truth lies in what is not written.
Recently, the number of real estate agents who write blogs has decreased dramatically,
but in the early days of the internet,
countless real estate agents wrote blogs.
Most of them stopped because writing became too painful for them
but there were also many presidents who suddenly stopped updating their blogs even though they had been writing for a long time while emphasizing that their company was profitable.
This was also due to the deterioration of business performance, which they had been hiding, and this left them with no choice but to think about running away, rather than writing a blog.
For this reason,
blogging every day means that no matter how much I try to cover it up,
I will be exposing the truth in the parts I don't actually write,
Bloggers, please keep this in mind.
If my blog stops, it could be that there is something wrong with my health or that the company is on the verge of collapse,
so in that sense, please keep reading.
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