Joy that you can contribute something. Joy to receive smiles from those who appreciated your contribution.

Thrilled by such joy, you again try to find something that you could contribute.

Happy Doll Project takes place at hospitals where a happy spiral continues to expand.

 

And everyone who gets involved in the project is the main cast.

In Japan, there are about 200,000 children who are fighting with difficult diseases and 1.4 million people in hospital, and there are about 8,800 hospitals. If you think of the whole world, the number of people who live with disease and the number of hospitals are just uncountable.

 

In such hospitals, Happy Dolls have become messengers and have traveled throughout the country for five years, linking hospitals and people who are there.

 

And as its finale, Happy Dolls’ troop finally crossed over the border!

They flew to New York to meet the children who fight against their disease.

It felt as if this trip was helped by the children who already went to another world, friends who taught us about disease and life, and moreover my parents who taught me about aging and death.

 

Lives shine even more when they are compared with those which are destined to disappear, and they tell us how precious lives are.

People also realize there are tons of small things that they can be grateful for when they are surrounded by what they don’t have and what they cannot do.

You can also gain a generous heart with which you can be kind to the people around you, even when you are fighting with pain and agony.

This project constantly reminds me of these important things.

And I always feel, “people are wonderful!”

 

What a wonderful world!