Word 102
There is a scene that appears in Nara Park only on summer nights.
Known as Nara Toka-e, this event is famous for its handmade candles, lit one by one through the August evenings. Visitors can even place and light a candle themselves — a practice called "one guest, one flame." What began as roughly ten thousand candles a night has grown, year after year, to nearly twenty thousand.
Each small flame, once lit, seems to lean toward its neighbor, drawing the next flame close, and the next after that. Before long, the surface of Ukimido pond and the shores of Sarusawa-ike are covered in countless points of light — and all of Nara Park becomes a warm sea of glow.
There is, without question, a law in this world: "birds of a feather flock together."
So if you want to live a life filled with joy, happiness, and gratitude, simply write down the joyful, happy, and grateful things that happened today.
It will build a good habit of focusing your attention on the "light" rather than the shadowed parts of the world, and you will be able to draw more of it to you.
Tonight, someone will place another candle. Its small flame sways quietly, as if searching for the light beside it, gently widening the circle of glow.