If there is someone you want to see, you should see them immediately! Before it's too late!

Welcome, I'm so glad you're here~~~

I recently had a meal with a friend from my student days!

Out of 37 classmates, only about 12 of us are still alive!
Like leaves falling from a tree, one by one, someone disappears every year!
Then we started talking about someone who passed away two years ago,
and how she ended up living in a residence for the elderly?

The friend I had dinner with hadn't seen her for a while,
and she heard from another friend in a different group that she had been
living in a place like that!
According to the friend who met her, she was hospitalized at the time,
and she went to visit her...
While they were chatting, she, who was in the hospital,
said, "I want to see [Name]."
The person she wanted to see was me!

We were classmates at an all-girls high school, and when we were about 18 to 20 years old,
we often hung out together. We both loved dancing,
and we used to go to foreign bars in Honmoku (which had jukeboxes
that often played Beatles songs)!
It was a small, narrow club, but because of the location,
it had an exotic, stylish atmosphere filled with many Americans...
We enjoyed dancing there, what you would call disco-style dancing today,

and then one time,
a person who ran a dance studio in Yokohama

asked if we would like to come to their studio? They wanted us to teach there!
We talked to each other and decided to just say we'd visit sometime,
casually and indirectly, to avoid getting involved!
We went to different universities, and naturally, our opportunities to meet decreased...

By the time we only met at class reunions, she had somehow
become a dance teacher right after graduating from university,
which surprised me!

I think being asked to be a dance teacher was the trigger

that led her down the path of dance!
During that time, she got married, her husband passed away...
She continued being a dance teacher even while her husband was alive...

Then she started living with her partner at the time...
And 10 years later, she lost that partner to death as well...

And then to the residence for the elderly...

While I was wondering how she was doing,
I was meeting with my usual friends, and she was meeting with other friends...

It was right at that moment!
A friend from another group who went to visit her in the hospital
told me she said, "I want to see [Name]."

And one week later, she departed for heaven!

Being told that by someone near the end of their life
made me happy, but at the same time, I felt regret that I should have seen her
when I felt like it!

So, with the friend I had dinner with this time,
we decided that when we think we want to see someone, we should!

We made a rule
to meet on our birthdays!

Since we are a group of three, our birthdays are in February, May, and August...
It's exactly every three months, a subtle interval!

Being told that by someone who was dying,
I realized I was in her thoughts in her memories,
and only now have I started to cry!

Then the friend I had dinner with said,
"I only need to live another five years! I have no regrets!"

I told her not to say such things and that she had to live until 120!
But she said, "My family line all disappears around the same age,
and I'm approaching that age! Actually, I had surgery for cancer eight years ago,
and I still go to the hospital regularly!"

I was like, "What!"
It was the first time I heard that!
She had never said anything like that before!

I told her she should at least live to 100,
but she said she had no intention of living that long...

It was as if she had realized something?!
I couldn't find the words for a while, not knowing what to say!

Anyway, we parted ways saying, "See you again in May"...
I wonder if we are gradually reaching that age,
but I don't want to think about it, and in the first place, I have no awareness
of getting older, so it feels like someone else's business and not real!

For someone who lives in a world of delusions and fantasies, what is a lifespan? ...

Who would I want to see when I die?!
That's still a long way off, so I don't know who it would be!

To my departed friend...

If you wait for me in heaven,
we can go back to our single days,
and talk about dance, okay?
Maybe we'll get scouted again?
Shall we teach dance in heaven?
Right now, I'm enjoying writing silly stories!
I still want to eat more delicious food!
There are places I still haven't been to!
My goal is 120 years old!
So, I might be late getting there,
but you don't age in heaven, so it's okay, right?
I'd be happy if you could wait for me until then.
I regret not going to the last class reunion (-_-;)

Thank you for saying you wanted to see me~~~❤
Well then, see you again until that time~~~~~~~~★★★

This time it turned into a diary-like monologue!
Is there someone you want to see?
If there is, you might want to go see them!
Before it's too late~~~❤
So you don't have any regrets~~~★

Thank you so much for reading~~~❁