Devine voice

It was about a year after I lived in the United States and I was becoming really comfortable with English. I knew I had come a long way since I began learning the language at a conversation school when I was 19. I was standing on what you might say the edge of the world I was used to. There was a river, an imaginary one, in front of me and the other side with houses was clearly visible. I wondered what it would be like to live there and I was ready to go. I think I heard a divine voice that said, “Are you sure you want to go to the other side?” I said yes and went into the river.

Since then, I have not returned to the world of my mother tongue (Japanese). There are no regrets.