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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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