Main category | Sub Category | Representative example (Excerpt) |
Admit oneself | Sense of self-belief | I think I have greatly recovered mentally. |
I thought I was carrying a heavy burden, but I can do it. | ||
Strength of the self | After the earthquake, I realized that I am more emotional than my husband. Before that, I used to rely on my husband all the time. | |
Sense of accomplishment | I think I’m living a full life, but I don’t know how other people see it. | |
I think I can accept this as long as I am not overwhelmed. | ||
Surviving Life | Life Affirmation | There is no excess or deficiency. I think it makes life more enjoyable. I have a lot of pain. A little joy cancels out the pain. |
I’m living my life with all these things. I believe that being alive is life. | ||
I want to enjoy my life even more. Sometimes I feel like an idiot. | ||
I’ve been blessed with a lot of people. I think I’m happy. | ||
Life Direction | We are all on the same path. I believed that life was about walking a certain distance at a certain rhythm. There was a time when I thought so. | |
Trajectory of Life | I’ve lived. I think I’ve been trying really hard. | |
Live frantically | I don’t think I felt anything. But I sometimes thought that life was hard. | |
Connecting with Nature | Man in Nature | The scale of nature is beyond the reach of human power. I think about it sometimes. |
I sometimes think that humans are dominated by the rising and setting of the sun. | ||
Healing of the Sea | I was thinking how nice it would be to see that big Pacific Ocean. | |
Connection with others | Human kindness | Human feelings. I don’t know what to say. What I think and recognize is that people are kind to others. |
Respect for others | All kinds of people came. I was impressed with everyone. | |
How can I explain people? There’s a lot of good people out there right now. | ||
If I were like that, I wouldn’t be able to go there. I thought, “Wow, you guys are amazing” | ||
Relationships with others, make an effort | We’re trying to make an effort so that we don’t have to take care of people too much. | |
I thought to myself, if I don’t treat people well, they won’t treat me well. | ||
Thinking mind | Emotional conflict | I think I need to listen to them and understand them. |
Change in consciousness | There was a time when I thought, “I’ve been living by myself, so I can continue to live by myself,” but after all, it’s good to have children and grandchildren and friends. | |
Direction of thought | It’s changed. The way I look at things, yeah. I think my way of thinking has changed. | |
The meaning of life | Acceptance of life and death | I realized that people’s lives and deaths are a part of everyday life. I guess you could say I gave up. I thought it was just like that, and I got my answer and my mind settled there. |
Hold on to life | In the midst of the disaster, everyone held on for dear life. I think more strongly about this after the earthquake. | |
Spiritual improvement | Whether it was the earthquake or anything else, I realized that the most important thing was the lives of my family members. | |
I’m glad that I had this experience after the earthquake. | ||
I thought, “People are so insignificant.”I guess I started to think that way because of the earthquake. I don’t know, but I think so. | ||
Thoughts after the disaster | Testimonies after the disaster | I think that most people had a major change after the earthquake. Including my own. I just can’t explain. |
Recalling the disaster | We seem to have forgotten about that disaster, but I think it’s still somewhere in our hearts. |