Another Shape of Luck and Social Issues

Summer fruits quench my thirst. Juicy fruits like a sweet watermelon cool me down in hot and sultry summer.

P.S.: I designed a sky-blue scarf, a tumbler, and illustration cards in the photo below.

I want to share my thoughts on social issues. These issues have not only happened to my country. It is an ongoing worldly matter, too. Before that, I express some aspects of true luck in my illustration of 'a four-leaf clover'.

Four-leaf clover

I illustrated a four-leaf clover that represents the inner aspect of luck. People in this period are used to seeking luck from external factors with wealth, success, and fame. But I approach another point of view on luck. In my illustration, I express some patterns of luck from wisdom, hope, faith, and passion, laying on strength, flow, rising, and sincerity. Tears of wise people will shine like jewels at the end with their luck. 

Wisdom: Solving problems by putting shattered pieces (distraction) together in life. 

Faith: Righteous faith leads to the right path.       

Hope: Having hope connects to positivity and makes a sun (purpose to live) exist in the mind.

Passion: It is lucky to have passion no matter how old we get. But it requires sincere efforts, too. 

Random killings in public places happened in a row this month. Citizens feel fear of unexpected attacks by abnormal people in anger and rage. The rate of schizophrenic, hikikomori (recluse), and suicide have increased as time went by. Why do people get mad or depressed? Can you tell it is only their problem? What is the fundamental cause of these social phenomena?

I want to put some thought into this matter. We live in the age of artificial intelligence, the fourth industrial revolution, and the new era of the Cold War. True virtue, fairness, and justice for human beings are fading away in this materialistic, mechanized world. The environment of the ideal family has been fading away. More and more people lose their minds and get obsessed with wealth, success, fame, and vain conceit. Citizens suffer from climate change, the financial meltdown in economic difficulties, and the corrupted governmental system with serious loopholes. It comes to the corner of the cliff with deficit or default. Fairness and justice are disappearing in educational institutions and judicial authorities, though. It is not only a matter of the nation I belong to. These are worldwide problems. It shows a sign of a domino effect worldwide. Citizens get torn apart by strife with their biased political faith. Endless disputes and conflicts swirl around the nation, even in the world. Also, the air and ocean are getting severely polluted. Where will be the destiny of the world despite the efforts of conscious people? I want to point out that these reasons may disrupt human nature and the environment in some aspects. Therefore, it is lucky to survive until the end of life with the strength of wisdom in this world.

The Waterfall

There is a vivid waterfall in front of the apartment where I live. It looks lively, although the size of the waterfall is small. The facility of waterfall gets cleaned out regularly. Like this, leading people of society need to be cleaned up by ethical education(?) regularly since they tend to lose their pangs of conscience, wisdom, and justice. The longer people are in the leading position or have power, the more they lose their original minds and become tarnished.