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While shooting I wondered if I would ever go to the poolside again.
That distinctive smell of chlorine mixed with something else.
The glaring light.
However, there are only a few memories that come back as recollections. When my daughter was in upper primary and junior high school. I only have two memories of my wife and I swimming in the sea in the summer, in our late twenties. One was in the Sea of Japan in an unusually cool summer year, when only my wife, who wanted to come all the way here, took a dip in the sea. As I watched from the side, I thought to myself, I'd like some heated sake.
If you like swimming, you will probably still swim at my age, but if you are a self-taught swimmer like me, you will only have a few opportunities to swim in your lifetime. Even my daughter, who went to swimming school and learned to swim the individual medley, does not swim anymore.
Time has passed and there are ways to spend it that are only possible at that age.
It is no exaggeration to say that summer will never come again, as I lament the passing of my youth.
I am irresistibly drawn to the story of Endless Eight at the moment. It's probably not all infantile nature that I can't get rid of no matter how old I get.
撮影しながら、私はもう、プールサイドへ行くことはないのだろうかと考えた。
あの塩素と何かが混じった独特の匂い。
眩しい光。
しかし、思い出として蘇る記憶は、ほんの僅かでしかない。娘が小学校高学年と中学校に入った頃。妻との記憶は、夏の海で泳いだ記憶が二つ程。２０代の後半。その一つは異常な冷夏の年の日本海、せっかく来たのだからという妻だけが海に浸かった。私は、側で眺めながら、燗酒が欲しいぐらいだと考えていた。
好きな人なら、私の年齢になっても泳ぐのだろうが、私のように我流で漸く泳げるようになった程度なら、一生の内に泳ぐ機会は数えるぐらいしかない。スイミングスクールに通って個人メドレーで泳げるようになった娘でさえ、今はもう泳ぐことはない。
時間は過ぎてしまい、その年齢でこそという過ごし方がある。
若さが過ぎてしまったことを嘆く私には、もう夏は来ないと言っても過言ではない。
エンドレスエイトなる物語に、今頃無性に心惹かれる。それは多分いくつになっても抜け出せない幼児性ばかりでもないだろう。
