[Surrounded on All Sides] A rhythmic story about being trapped in the bathroom.
[I wrote this somewhere a long time ago, but]
along with a warning for the summer,
my heart just screamed that I wanted to post it.]
Today, my heart is warmed by the spring-like sunshine.
I opened the windows and the front door,
and went into the bathroom while ventilating.
"What a refreshing day."
...SLAM!
Oh my goodness.
Due to the extremely strong wind,
a large square package that had been leaning against the front of the bathroom
fell over,
and became completely wedged between it and the wall.
I was completely trapped.
I couldn't contact anyone.
I pushed it, but it wouldn't budge.
I'm sure it's something that could happen to anyone, but
I remembered the time I was trapped in an elevator
at a hotel in Florida.
This is Japan,
however, there is no emergency button.
I tried to use my fingernail to remove the screws,
but the screw holes are thinner than your fingernails,
more than you might think.
Please don't be overconfident.
...There is a phrase I know,
Shimen-soka (surrounded on all sides).
In China,
there was a man named Xiang Yu
who, along with his consort Lady Yu,
was surrounded by the soldiers of Chu.
Surrounded on all sides,
with the songs of Chu being sung to him,
he found himself in a desperate situation.
At that time,
the words Xiang Yu recited
"Yu, oh Yu,
what shall I do with you?
(Yu, oh Yu,
what on earth am I to do with you?)"
are famous, as is the story of Lady Yu,
who took her own life after hearing those words.
My appearance
must have truly
overlapped with that of Xiang Yu and Lady Yu
at that time.
I, too,
"Foolish, oh foolish...
what shall I do with this difficult situation..."
Thinking this in my heart,
I searched for a solution, but...
I was at a loss.
(For people in Kyushu,
there is the option of 'ukkan-gasu' (to break through),
but I cannot go that far.)
However,
unlike Xiang Yu and Lady Yu,
there was a glimmer of hope.
"Wait, wasn't the bathroom..."
"at a higher position than the ground??"
Startled, I continued to push and pull, and as a result,
Slipping... the wood fell to the ground,
and I managed to get out.
I had seen a lesson from someone who was trapped in a bathroom
saying that you should take your mobile phone
even to the bathroom,
"I didn't know that could happen"
and when I thought that,
such a thing
had come all the way
to a place like this.
I agree with
taking your mobile phone
even to the bathroom.
(Seriously, this was no joke,
I was so surprised...)
What I felt honestly
was "s-u-r-p-r-i-s-e".
I didn't know that this would happen to me either.
If you are going to the bathroom
while ventilating,
please take your mobile phone.
If you don't have one,
I think you have no choice but to set your heart ablaze,
use all your strength,
and keep hitting the corner with all your might
to break it.
If you
don't know how to "set your heart ablaze",
please watch "Demon Slayer: Mugen Train".
To conclude,
the reason I was able to get through
this difficult situation
was simply
because I was the eldest son.
If I were the second son,
it would have been impossible.
With this lesson,
there is only one thing
I want to say:
Even if you
are faced with a nightmare-like event,
"Set your heart ablaze,
and cut through the nightmare with that blade."
That is all.
PS: Is the Tanjiro Kamado
inside you
still doing well...?