2021 → 2022...。

I try to change the photos on the top and profile pages of the My Action site once a year, and this year I did it a little earlier than usual.
With all the social networking sites out there, the value of a website is slowly diminishing, and more and more people and companies are advertising on Facebook pages and Instagram without having a website.
In my mind, a website is like the front door of a house, and if it's not clean and easy to read, even if you have good content, if it's hard to read, you'll lose your fans.
When I was in high school, there were a lot of slideshows on websites, but nowadays, I feel that there are a lot of websites that are simple and convey information as concisely as possible, reducing the burden on the smartphone. Recently, however, I feel that there are more and more sites that are simple and convey information as concisely as possible to the viewer, reducing the burden on smartphones.
As time goes by, I believe that websites themselves will disappear if more easy-to-read and easy-to-use websites are created in the future.

Torisuma is a YouTube channel that introduces people with various disabilities.
Mr. Masaru Torigoe, a producer and personality of the channel and a muscular dystrophy sufferer, came all the way to my house to shoot a video.
We talked about my disability, my time as a student, My Action, etc. The video will be divided into the first half and the second half, and will be uploaded around February 2022.
For this shoot, Mr. Torigoe had taken the trouble to read the book I had written, and there were many sticky notes on it.
Since I upload Kentaro's Room on Youtube twice a week, I understand the fun and difficulty of video editing, so I tried to make my speech as concise as possible, and I was conscious of talking to the audience.
What made me very happy was that Mr. Torigoe said, "I admire your vitality, it's very high! I was very happy to hear that Mr. Torigoe said, "I admire your vitality.
I haven't had that many video shoots like this one, and there are still parts that are far from the image I have in my mind, but I still think it's more important to cherish each one.

 I released a mini-album "The Way So Far" in March, and as a performer, it is one of my regrets that I was not able to give a live performance because I was not so energetic in my musical activities.
As I wrote in last week's blog, I'm happy to have completed the song before the end of the year.
On the 23rd, I had a zoom meeting with the composer's company about my musical activities for the next year, and during the meeting, I was able to talk about my goals for next year, which are to release three times and to hold a live concert, which I couldn't do this year.
Singing has become a very important part of My Action and me, and I believe that singing is a way to communicate with people in different languages, and above all, a way to express oneself.
When I was writing the lyrics for the first song I released, "My Action", I was thinking, "If I can make myself stand out, that's all that matters! That was it.
As I've gotten older and had more experiences, I've come to think that maybe my role as a performer is to make people smile and cheer up with my songs and presence rather than to stand out myself.
Of course, I still have the desire to stand out lol.
But as I mentioned earlier, I am changing my way of thinking to think that it is not happiness to stand out, but happiness to spread the circle of happiness by making someone smile or cheer up.
Me sitting idly in an electric wheelchair outdoors

This will be my last blog for 2021.
By writing once a week, I will be able to write about what happened during the week, my thoughts and ideas, which will help me to move on to the next step, and to remember what happened.
Next year, I will have more power and challenge myself to do various things while also focusing on my music activities.
Me under a blue sky in an electric wheelchair with a red jacket on my shoulders.

My Action General producer/performer Sugiyama