Cherry blossoms are very popular in my country Japan. It is considered a symbol of Japanese beauty. Every year when spring approaches, every newspaper, every radio and television station start to forecast a prospective flowering day. When I say I’m Japanese, people instantly assume that I adore cherry blossoms like most Japanese do. Well, I …
I used to have terrible period cramps when I was a teenager. When the time of the month approached, I would feel my body starting to bloat. And then I would get the heaviness and gruelling pain in my lower back and abdomen. I would often get anemia and feel so nauseous that I couldn’t …
Sometimes a very trivial thing gets you into never-ending agony of an incomprehensible mystery. It happened to me on a beautiful Sunday afternoon of a beautiful summer day. I was making my favourite type of coffee poured into my favourite mug, listening to my favourite radio station. Then I opened a packet of my favourite …
When I feel “Life is not fair!”, I’m likely to remember my friend, Kaz. Kaz and I were classmates at the third grade in an elementary school. We sat next to each other in the classroom. We also lived near one another, so we sometimes walked back home from school together. I remember him as …
A Thousand Years 