Talent and actor Saher Rose appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which aired on August 7th. She spoke about the teachings of her mentor from her high school days.
During his junior high school years, he suffered from bullying and his grades dropped. He grew up in a single-parent household and barely made ends meet. He enrolled in a part-time agricultural high school and met a Japanese teacher.
When I was in high school and had become afraid of talking to people because I had been bullied, I was eating alone in the cafeteria when a teacher came up to me and asked, "What are you so afraid of?" and "Why don't you show more of yourself?"
Although my grades were poor, my mother (adoptive mother) dreamed of me going to university, so at that time I was "conflicted about how I could become the daughter my mother wanted." My teacher told me, "It's okay. There is no such thing as a stupid person, so don't think you're stupid or that you can't do it. You can do it if you try."
"I had been denying myself, but he taught me that denying myself is not a good thing, and that it's very important to accept yourself and live your life as you are," she recalls.
"I was able to go to university thanks to the one-on-one tutoring I received from her even when she wasn't in class," she said. "I could almost say that she was my Japanese mother. She was both a mother and a best friend, and even now she cuts out all the newspaper articles that I appear in and that I find useful and educational, and sends them to me," she said happily.
