This morning, a friend sent a message to my LINE group. It was a notification (or reminder) about the coming offline meeting we will hold next Sunday. I appreciate that friend's dedication to this activity, and want to join the meeting to share the ideas I have had recently in my life such as the manga I have been enjoying, and also what I am learning from various things this life affords me.
I attended the online meeting in English as usual (on Zoom), and enjoyed a so-called "free-talk" discussion. We shared each one's plan today, and also some members taught us about the app Meetup. They said it enables us to enjoy various meetings such as book clubs or language-exchange meetings (both in real meetings or online). It has attracted me a lot, therefore after that meeting I installed that app (btw, even though I have learned it must sound strange, I tend to shorten the word "application" as "appli [アプリ]", instead of "app" because of this Japanese language environment).
I borrowed an interesting book from the library again, which is Karen Cheung's "The Impossible City", which is her memoir about the place Hong Kong and also her life. I did that because I guess this book would suggest several clues to write "my" memoir as I have written in these journals. At lunchtime, I wrote some pieces of notes on my memo pad in English about my memoir. One thing I want to write in is this. How the English language has been helping/supporting me during this life (I can even say it "saves" my life, even though it must have taken a very long time for me to find that possibility within learning English).
Once (yes, I'm now remembering my past miserable days), definitely because of plenty of traumatic events, I had completely lost any kind of self-esteem within myself. So before that day, when I met my friends at that antique café, I must have been a virtual "zombie" who must have lost my soul/spirit. I want to write about that day when everything in my life started like this (I can even say this... on that day, I even "started" my life by my free will, my decision finally).
