KEIKO KOMA net

16 Aug. 2011

Kamaishi concert

The Idaki Shin disaster memorial concert was held in Kamaishi city and I realized that grievances at heart became a heavy pain and kept on aching in my heart while I was listening to the music. Only people like Mr. Idaki Shin who could share the pains and sadness of others could open up a future and by the end of the concert all the pains engraved in my heart were completely wiped away. I felt like madly screaming out of tremendous joy if there could be nobody around me. I realized the extreme joy of being liberated from sadness and pains engraved in my life. I would have kept on crying till every tear in my body dried up if I were alone there. Towards the end of the concert the initially sad looking mountain behind the stage looked like shedding tears out of joy and was brilliantly shining. Life in nature was together with us. Now that many people have lost their lives, the way to nurse their soul was to rebuild a truly human country that would allow everybody to live a happy life. While anyone who visited a disaster hit city would realize that people’s life was still in a very critical situation and their sadness and pains remained perpetuated within their life, so our concert was designed to liberate them and discover a way out from the dead end situation. No concert in the world was capable to do so as was our concert. I recalled that the Idaki Shin concert was miraculously realized at Persepolis in Iran where holding a concert itself was basically prohibited. His music was evaluated as a high cultural activity more than mere music. One person could exercise his influence on the rest of the world once he or she became awakened to the truth and took action. Owing to the realization of today’s concert at Kamaishi city I believed that the situation would greatly be changed and a marvelous future became wide open to us.