The Secret of the Girl Dancing with a Smile ~She Who Smiles Well, Gently Gets Through Reality~ | Short Short | Short Essay

Every day, when evening comes, that girl is
dancing on the beach.

Tourists all say,


"It must be nice, that kind of free way of life."

Even though there is no music playing,
she stands on the beach at a set time.

With a flower lei around her neck and a hibiscus
in her hair, she stands barefoot on the sand.

And then, she begins to move her hands slowly.

On a stage of only the sound of waves and the wind, she is always
smiling happily.

Swaying her hips and dancing as if drawing a story with her fingertips,
that figure was truly a scene that symbolized "tropical freedom."

Tourists point their smartphones at her.

They take videos.

Some people applaud.

She smiles in a friendly way and dances again.
She looks like she has no worries at all.

She doesn't seem to be chased by time.

There is no sign of her being scolded by anyone.

She was just swaying her body comfortably in the twilight light...

Before long, the sky is dyed orange, and


the tourists return to their respective hotels.
"That was wonderful."


"Do you do this every day?"

"It's nice to be free."

Every time she is asked such things, she smiles a little

shyly and waves.

That figure was just like a symbol of
"someone who made the right choice to come here."

But the islanders know.

A few years ago, she quit her job at a city company and
is someone who came to this island on "impulse."

"You only live once."
"I have to do what I want to do."
"I want to cherish myself."

At first, it seems she often said things like that.

Before long,
it became "I'm taking a little break for now," then
"I'll think about what's next when the timing is right," and
before she knew it, that "timing" never came,
and years had passed.

The tourists go home.
She does not go home.
No, to be precise—

she is here, having lost track of the timing to go home.

When night falls, the beach becomes quiet.
She returns to her small cottage, sits at the counter,
and drinks a tropical juice.

The same flower lei from the daytime is no longer
around her neck.

It is wilting slightly on the table.

Her smartphone screen lights up.

"How are you?"
"How have you been lately?"
"Everything is the same here."

Notifications come in, but she hardly ever replies.

Even though she smiled so much during the day, now she just
traces the water droplets on her glass with her finger.


She has obtained freedom.
But "what's next" is still undecided.


Is she moving forward, or is she standing still?
Did she choose this, or did she just drift here?
Without knowing, another day ends...


Even so, when tomorrow comes, she will stand on the beach again.

Because only while she is dancing does she feel like shehas a reason to be here.

The next day, the tourists will surely say again,
"It must be nice, that kind offree way of life."

She smiles and waves.
Whether that smile is genuine, perhaps even she
doesn't know.


The only thing that is certain is—
her dance is healing someone, and at the
same time, it is,

Freedom might not be
"a state where you don't have to return anywhere"...but rather,a state where you don't have to return anywhere

"the skill of being able to keep smiling
while having lost the timing to return."


Perhaps...

That girl is dancing on the beach again today.

Probably, right in the middle between someone else's admiration and her own anxiety.

The end.

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