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Life
of Okami's Strenuous Efforts
---Steps
to the Opening of The website---
4.
IMAI TOMOKO- Sensei
( Ms. Tomoko Imai)
I
unconcernedly visited Ms. Tomoko Imai whom I had respected, even though
I still couldn't find my real vocation at the time yet.
She
was the first lady- weather-forecaster who instructed announcers and
as a top communicator, she trained people at various companies for
the development of their staff's talents. She, also, is the founder
of the specific method of the Face-to Face Sale'
For
Shiseido Cosmetic Company.
Talking
more about Ms. Imai, she had once appeared in the magazine' Anan'
which I happened to read when I was about 19 years old.
Somehow
I had taken it in my head, and clipped the page of the magazine where
she had been in.
Twenty
years later, I was surprised at the coincidence of encountering with
her. I saw her name at Japan Secretary Association. I called the association
right away. I decided to attend the school where she was teaching
in Shibuya for one year.
She
was a lady I had long wanted to meet, and luckily I met her twenty
years after my having acknowledged her name in the magazine.
When
I contacted her, she had been so busy writing magazine articles and
books.
But
she was kind enough to take ten minutes to meet with me. On the day
of meeting with her, she said, Oh, welcome! with a happy voice
and a smiling face. It sure was a shame that I lost my words in front
of her.
Only
the words I I could have said , if any, was, I don't like to work
as a secretary. I know I want to do something else, but I don't know
what. I couldn't have said no more than that childish words. Having
been given her precious time to me , I spent impertinent time , not
even having said what I had to say.
At
the beginning , she was also at a loss what to say to me, but then
said, Hold tight your carrier as a secretary and establish your
next work onto it.
She
knew what a secretary was like as she herself was a secretary , one
of the directors of the Secretary Association. I felt tears running
down from my eyes at the moment when I heard her that. My mind and
head were normal and actually quite calm at the time. My voice was
normal too.
I
knew what I said about myself and I knew also that I was never sad
nor lonely either.
But
somehow something behind my calm emotion made me shed continuously.
First,
I held my tears with my hands, but later on, I needed several sheets
of tissue papers to wipe them off.
What
puzzled me was I had no idea what my tears had been for.
 It
was my first experience that I wasn't quite aware of the reason for
my overflowing tears.
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