内気　shy one

木彫りのスローロリスです。 素材はヒノキ、着彩はアクリル絵の具です。 スローロリスは、見つかったときの動作から、「内気な」とか「恥ずかしがり屋」と呼ばれているらしい。 人は社会性の動物なので、内気や恥ずかしがり屋は直したいと思う人が多いようなのだけど、 内気や恥ずかしがり屋は他人の視点が気になるだけで、自分一人ならむしろ快適でいられる場合が多々あるように思います。 すべての人は、集団である前に独りで生きているはずなのだから、まず独りで快適に生きることができるなら、それだけで万々歳なのだと思うけど、他人の視点を気にして集団内で評価される要素を持ちたいと思うのは自由だし、憧れたその要素を自分が持たないことを恥じることは、それを獲得するために努力するためのエネルギーにできることもあるかもしれない。私たちが何を思いどう生きようとするかは自由で、他人が評価することじゃない。 だけど、他人の視点を意識して憧れて努力して手に入れた評価は、より高い評価との比較を産んで、もしかすると手にした評価で序列を作ろうとしたり、持っていない者を排除しようとしたりする方向へ向かうことがあるから、気を付けないといけないと思う。 This is a slow loris carved from wood. The material is cypress, and the coloring is acrylic paint. I heard that slow lorises are called "shy" or "embarrassed" because of the way they hide their faces when they are found. Since we're social animals, it seems most of us want to fix our shyness and embarrassment. It seems to me that shyness and embarrassment are just a matter of worrying about other people's viewpoints, and in many cases, you can be rather comfortable on your own. All of us live alone before we are in a group, so if we can live comfortably on our own, that's all that matters. But you are free to be concerned about other people's viewpoints and want to have elements that are valued in the group, and being ashamed that you can't have what you yearn for may be the energy you need to work hard to acquire it. We are free to think what we want and how we want to live. It is not for others to evaluate us. However, by yearning and striving to obtain an evaluation, those who are concerned about the perspectives of others will compare themselves with higher evaluations, and perhaps try to create a pecking order based on the evaluation they have obtained, or violate the rights of those who are not evaluated. We can live without being influenced by the evaluations of others. I think we should not forget that just as we can live by our own evaluation, others are free to live how they want to live.