Mother's Watch

On November 10th 2009, I surpassed my mother's age.

I never can imagine finishing my life so early...

Now, my mother in my memory is younger than me.

I read an article in a newspaper before my birthday,

The article introduced about an old broken watch story.

Before a few month of the article, a watch repairer read an article about the watch coincidentally.

The article said the owner of the watch had wanted to fix it, but no one could so far.

The watch repairer Mr. Shimizu called the newspaper company,

and said "Could you tell the owner to show me the watch? "

Mr. Shimizu fixed the watch!

Then, the newspaper introduced this whole story. And I read it.

I've wanted to fix an old watch which is a keepsake from my mother for a long time.

The watch is over 30 years old and It has not worked for about 15 years.

So I went to Mr. Shimizu's shop (fortunately, the shop is in Tokyo!!).

He was an old gentle man. And he promised me that he would fix the watch.

One week later, the watch started ticking again when I surpassed my mother's age!!

I never thought there was such a big difference in my feeling between it works and doesn't work.

Now I'm very happy.

I really thank Mr. Shimizu and Sankei news paper.