I worked late today. This morning, I joined the daily English Zoom meeting. There, we talked about some greeting words used during this Christmas and Happy New Year season, such as "Happy Holidays." After that, I had breakfast and went to AEON. Although I could stay in my room this morning, I would lose my sanity with plenty of books. So, I decided to go.
However, this morning time I could do nothing instead I had to fight against a huge, serious fear or anxiety. What is disturbing me to do something? I couldn't find out the reason why... I just held my head with my hands and stayed frozen. But, suddenly I remembered this: Once, even though I had forgotten the exact situation, a friend of mine said to us "If you have anything, just say it out loud. If not so, anything wouldn't be able to be delivered". That was the only clue for me. So, following that word, I started sending messages to my friends with courage.
I started working at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. I had a break time. During that time, I tried to remember what had happened in the year 2024. However, even though I have been writing my journals every day, I rarely read these back numbers again so I couldn't remember anything. Certainly, I must have done many activities... Taking a certain time, I remembered that I had my two wisdom teeth pulled in the next town. Also, I even painted a large pic of mine and showed it in public (Oh my! Why could I have forgotten such big events?).
On a LINE group, I read an interesting message posted there. It was someone episode in Osaka, who was already fluent in Japanese but when people talked to them, people didn't use the Japanese language to that person, instead English. This must come from a bias which means foreigners tend to use English as a "global" language. Yes, even I tend to try to see whether they can speak English when I see foreigners outside. So, I have to try to learn the fact that there must be so many languages except English, and also have to prepare for them by learning their cultures or pieces of their languages (as sincerely as possible).
