At work, my subordinates constantly give me crap, and when I get home, my kids tell me to go away. Even though we're in the same world, it's as if we're seeing different things—or perhaps, we're seeing the same thing in different worlds. But we're certainly in the same place, and we always will be.

This is a story of a parent and child authored by the once-in-a-generation talent Okuda Akiko.