ADN-821 My junior colleague, who kept playfully tempting me, told me, You really are oblivious, and I ended up getting so carried away that I forgot about my wife, my child, and even my work. Natsuo Ayatsuki

The gray hairs and age spots that had started to stand out. I was already approaching 50, and I had grown old too.

I even had a son in middle school, and no matter how young I felt inside, I couldn’t win against the passage of time.

My life would be spent with my wife, with whom I hadn’t even held hands in years.

That’s what I thought, until that day.

When the cutest junior at work pressed me with, You really are clueless, aren’t you? I threw everything away and let myself sink, body and soul, into the depths she was waiting in.