Kanno Miho's KANTABI Essay
I bought Kanno Miho's KANTABI essay photobook back in October last year when I went to Japan for business trip. And just now I got around in reading it =P
Here are some of the quotes of what Miho wrote in the book. I only translated the parts about her view in love and romance ^_^
In the future, I will get married and have children, so I can't just go for a trip easily anymore, that's exactly why I think while I'm still carefree now, I want to go to as many places as possible.
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Men often said to me, "You're so comical,". I frankly feel grateful, but as I think it again... I'd understand if they say "You're so cheerful"... but "comical" is quite rarely used to comment a person's character right? (laughs) But if it's someone I love who said it to me, it makes me happy, I guess. It means he had fun spending time together with me, right!?
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Dangerous Path called Love
Yappari, love.... is something falls, ne. It's not something that can happen just by feeling "Let's do it". I never fall in love at first sight before, but perhaps it is better to fall in love at first sight, anyway. Because it's like, once you fall, you just have to accept the rest. (laughs) Long time ago, once I found the good side of him, I felt, "This is it, it's gotta be him!" and then I came to love him. But now, I have a problem of how should I handle his bad sides, how should I keep being together with him even with those not good side of him. However... that's why...(?) since I kept prior that feeling, somehow it's getting harder to switch on the "engine". As I've aged, seem like a sensor has blocked my honest intuition and my glittering first impression of him. I don't have any ideal type of men, actually. But then, perhaps, those who has ideal types may have more working antenna?
Also, I heard that the world has becoming a world where men won't move before the women does. Is my way of thinking conventional? Coz I want men to be the one who decides things. Of course, I think women has to support men, but the ideal things for me is that men should be the one who leads.
A Path to Happiness
My father and mother were classmates in junior high school. That's why I have always admired a relationship raised slowly in a long time. But "nagai ren'ai" (long romance/long-term relationship) has this danger of always thinks of what we have reached up to here... We kept thinking, "We've come this far, so...". But now I'm thinking that to imagine of what will happen in the next 20-30 years rather than clinging to the past, is more like me.
I've once said before in a magazine interview about "Good Weather Wedding". Yappari, in the end, the most ideal for me, is "A Wedding without A Single Cloud"! Yappari I want to start a new life with someone in a bright and clear feeling!
To imagine the ideal thing and the path ahead would make me more positive and it's fun, anyway. But from the trips and experiences I've done before, I realized it's hard for things to go as planned. (laughs) Sometimes things we didn't imagine at all before, suddenly happens... But it's so strange, even though unexpected things happened, it always gets back to the point of "I want it to be like this", and the unexpected things were just a roundabout way. That's why, I believe the path I'm walking on right now, will reach that "happiness" I've imagined, someday!
The Destination called Future
If life is a long, long trip then I would say my ideal goal is to have a husband, one son and one daughter.
People say son would look like the mother, and daughter would look like the father, deshou!? That's why, I want both! Then, we will gather and have meals together, chatting noisily. And when the children has gotten bigger we'd go for a trip abroad for one month.
Of course it might be difficult depends on my husband's work, but I think it could be a good experience for the kids.
Also, I think it would be nice if we can go together with grandparents (my husband's parents and my parents) too!
A Reliable Man in Emergency Situations is The Ideal Partner for me.
I'd like to go for a backpack trip with the man I love someday.
My dream is to go for a backpack trip with the man I love! My younger brother who just got married in the end of May, went once with his girlfriend before the wedding, for a backpack trip for 3 weeks. Of course they had many fights during the trip, but I think it must've been such good memories for them. Right after the trip, they immediately decided to get married.
It would be a trip of trying to keep going forward while battling with places we are not used to. A backpack trip would need the two's cooperation and it would be fun, somehow it kind of symbolizes marriage. Managing money expenses, doing an effort to keep living in a limited condition, in such an emergency situation just how much he would care about his partner... If the trip's condition is difficult I think that person's real character would come out. For him and me, it would be like a combination test before marriage. (laughs) I think he would be an ideal husband for me, if he is reliable in emergency situations. Someone with a strong heart.
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Goro-chan? Reliable in emergency situations? Impossible, you think? Do not underestimate him!^v^ He only hates violence, that's all. But actually, I think he can endure pain and suffer the most among SMAP members. Remember the marathon with Nakai? Goro kept running and running, while Nakai almost collapsed and he was the one who kept cheering on Nakai to keep going. Remember how Goro managed to calm Shingo during the NASA press conference in Houston?^^ Somehow it seems like Goro can think calmly in emergency situations. (let's not count the incident in 2001, he was drunk a bit, lol)
Unexpectedly, Goro might pass Miho's "Ideal Partner" test, anyway =P