My Trip
Yeah, a dull title ^^; I couldn’t think up a title.
This morning I ran up an escalator at the train station, thinking I might be late. I have to admit this day I was one of those frantic Tokyoites in the morning, sprinting into a train not to be late for work. In Tokyo, trains come like every three minutes, and you might think, "Geez, lighten up and take the next train!" Yes you're right I think that way but today I needed. to. get. on. the. train XO And then, I slipped and fell on my face on the escalator! I was embarrassed, and the pain was incredible but the thought of missing the train stationed right now got me crawling up the escalator on all fours, like a desperate iguana. I wonder what others there thought of me XD they kind of stepped back and made a way for me to crawl up.
We were to practice on one of those efficiency tests used in employer selection. So, two hours straight on this. As soon as I saw the content of the test I lost interest. I knew I wouldn’t even make it to thirty points. And who really cares what lake is the second largest in Japan anyway? Or which prefecture harvests cabbage... why not make sure everyone can locate Israel on the map instead -_- So while others worked on it in complete silence, I decided to make a better use of the two hours by sleeping. No, not really sleeping, that wouldn’t be possible because the teacher would punch me awake. I sort of nodded off in my cozy wool coat.
And there it goes, my mind inside me is tagging on me and gradually it takes me down through this tunnel. It’s usually very colorful. If I don’t float straight some gravity will pull me into its colorful wall and I will have to relive whatever scene in my past it takes me. Well, I don’t care if I’m sucked into the colorful air fast because that’s what happens in the end anyway. I found myself in the empty hallway of my elementary school...again. I knew my mind would choose this place. This is where my mind reaches in the end, almost always. The memory is usually in the summer days, when there is no one making noises at school except for footsteps of someone, perhaps of a janitor. A weirdo student like me took a pleasure in visiting the library and hanging around at school after swimming, having the silent place all to myself. First I saw myself wandering about the hallway, wondering what manga story I’d like to write next (it’s strange how I’m daydreaming in a daydream) and then the vacant art room, (which I didn’t enter for I was afraid going in there might take me to another memory) then up the gray stairs, and then to the library.
I must’ve lost the concentration because the atmosphere around me changed completely - I came to another time, but still inside school. I think my body decomposed into the air, but I could see what’s around me. It was inside what looked like a cave. The 11-year-old me can be seen in the seat in the classroom. She had decided to daydream out of the teacher’s view during his lecture. She was crouched over her desk, her arms wrapped around the head and staring into the dark little space it made. I had pretended I was inside a cave, I recalled the moment clearly. I now remembered that while enjoying my time in that dark,on that very day, the 11-year-old me had decided this little space will be kept forever somewhere in the alternate universe, so the Miho somewhere in the future can visit this sanctuary anytime.
It wasn’t the first time I went back to this cave I made a long time ago. It’s just that I forget about its existence until the next time I luckily get pulled in to this during daydreaming. Even now that I have typed an entry about this, I bet it will recede from my memory very quick, as soon as I upload this and turn off my laptop.
It was just before the end of the testing when I decided to wake myself up. I was again in the middle of the pool of students in black suit facing down at the desk :\ I was impressed they were still interested in the paper _^_ Uh, it felt weird to see that I, too, am in black suit just like everyone else’s. I wondered if anyone else in the pool got spirited away...secretly, like me during the two hours. X)
This morning I ran up an escalator at the train station, thinking I might be late. I have to admit this day I was one of those frantic Tokyoites in the morning, sprinting into a train not to be late for work. In Tokyo, trains come like every three minutes, and you might think, "Geez, lighten up and take the next train!" Yes you're right I think that way but today I needed. to. get. on. the. train XO And then, I slipped and fell on my face on the escalator! I was embarrassed, and the pain was incredible but the thought of missing the train stationed right now got me crawling up the escalator on all fours, like a desperate iguana. I wonder what others there thought of me XD they kind of stepped back and made a way for me to crawl up.
We were to practice on one of those efficiency tests used in employer selection. So, two hours straight on this. As soon as I saw the content of the test I lost interest. I knew I wouldn’t even make it to thirty points. And who really cares what lake is the second largest in Japan anyway? Or which prefecture harvests cabbage... why not make sure everyone can locate Israel on the map instead -_- So while others worked on it in complete silence, I decided to make a better use of the two hours by sleeping. No, not really sleeping, that wouldn’t be possible because the teacher would punch me awake. I sort of nodded off in my cozy wool coat.
And there it goes, my mind inside me is tagging on me and gradually it takes me down through this tunnel. It’s usually very colorful. If I don’t float straight some gravity will pull me into its colorful wall and I will have to relive whatever scene in my past it takes me. Well, I don’t care if I’m sucked into the colorful air fast because that’s what happens in the end anyway. I found myself in the empty hallway of my elementary school...again. I knew my mind would choose this place. This is where my mind reaches in the end, almost always. The memory is usually in the summer days, when there is no one making noises at school except for footsteps of someone, perhaps of a janitor. A weirdo student like me took a pleasure in visiting the library and hanging around at school after swimming, having the silent place all to myself. First I saw myself wandering about the hallway, wondering what manga story I’d like to write next (it’s strange how I’m daydreaming in a daydream) and then the vacant art room, (which I didn’t enter for I was afraid going in there might take me to another memory) then up the gray stairs, and then to the library.
I must’ve lost the concentration because the atmosphere around me changed completely - I came to another time, but still inside school. I think my body decomposed into the air, but I could see what’s around me. It was inside what looked like a cave. The 11-year-old me can be seen in the seat in the classroom. She had decided to daydream out of the teacher’s view during his lecture. She was crouched over her desk, her arms wrapped around the head and staring into the dark little space it made. I had pretended I was inside a cave, I recalled the moment clearly. I now remembered that while enjoying my time in that dark,on that very day, the 11-year-old me had decided this little space will be kept forever somewhere in the alternate universe, so the Miho somewhere in the future can visit this sanctuary anytime.
It wasn’t the first time I went back to this cave I made a long time ago. It’s just that I forget about its existence until the next time I luckily get pulled in to this during daydreaming. Even now that I have typed an entry about this, I bet it will recede from my memory very quick, as soon as I upload this and turn off my laptop.
It was just before the end of the testing when I decided to wake myself up. I was again in the middle of the pool of students in black suit facing down at the desk :\ I was impressed they were still interested in the paper _^_ Uh, it felt weird to see that I, too, am in black suit just like everyone else’s. I wondered if anyone else in the pool got spirited away...secretly, like me during the two hours. X)