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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
The classic one.
The classic one.
I, you know, listeners can not see this, but I really like your face when you're doing this.
Like, doing little, you know, like this.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Like this face.
Next time, can you video record my face?
Yeah.
I'll put it on Instagram and see what people can see.
Yeah, that'll be fun.
Alright, so, I've got a mail from Fusen4-san.
Fusen4-san.
Well, thank you again.
Well, thank you very much.
Yes.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
I have a question for you on the podcast.
Yes.
I failed the exam I took the other day.
I'm trying to accept the fact that I'm not good at English, but sometimes I feel down.
What do you do when you feel down?
Sorry for the long answer.
I'd be happy if you could answer this.
This is an easy question.
Easy question.
This is an easy question for me.
Okay.
Like, for me, like, there is no right answer in life.
Right.
Right?
So, like, if you don't know, if you went...
Maybe she's talking about school, maybe.
Like, it sounded like she applied for a certain school.
Yeah, maybe.
Okay, let's say it was a school.
Right?
You apply for a school, and in your mind, you have this image of like,
"Oh, if I went to the school, I would probably be able to do this."
Yeah.
"If I went to the school, all of the companies would give me permission to enter their company."
Right?
"If I go to the school, maybe I'll be a motte motte." Right?
Yeah.
All these, like, all these, like, tchotchkes that come along with entering that school.
What you think.
That's what you think in your mind.
Yeah, like, expecting that.
Yeah.
You expect that to happen.
Dreaming.
But in reality, you don't know what's going to happen.
Like, maybe the school that you go to...
Okay, so you decided, okay, you failed the test.
You were not able to enter a school.
Maybe you go to a different school.
Maybe you meet the man of your life, right?
And then you'll be happy as fuck, right?
Yeah.
And then maybe you'll... maybe at that school, there is a Spanish club, right?
And you start learning Spanish.
Yeah.
Right?
And then you might open up your... you might open yourself up to a new world.
Maybe.
And find some sort of a new happiness that you would have never encountered when you went to the first school that you...
Yeah.
... first desired.
So, you know, and vice... and the flip side too, like, if you went to the first school, you might have...
you might have, like... you might have entered a classroom, right?
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A brick fell off, right, from the ceiling, and you might have died.
Okay.
It's possible, right?
Yeah.
You might have sat down in a certain chair in a classroom, and it broke and hit your head,
and you might... you might... you might go to the hospital for that.
Like, you don't know what's gonna happen.
So, like, there is no... you can't... if it happens, it happens.
So, like, if you failed, you failed.
So, there is no... don't... don't look back is my answer, because you don't know what it would have been.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, that's my answer.
Yeah, okay.
How about you?
What if it was some kind of sort of, like, like, shikaku shiken?
It's not... what if it wasn't, like, entering school?
Like, simply she just failed, like, did a mistake and feel depressed.
What is your advice?
You just have to try again, right?
Yeah.
Like, if you...
Or you just change your mind and try new things, maybe?
If that's more comfortable for you.
Like, if you change your mind and then, like, you still have this itch.
Yeah.
Itch of, like, oh, I wish I... I wanted to try that again.
If you have that itch, go ahead and scratch it, right?
Like, try again if it makes you, like, uncomfortable.
So, you know, try again if you're not comfortable.
Or, like...
I mean, most of the things, most...
Like, I feel like 100% of... when I was depressed, like, time solved everything.
Okay.
Like, there is no one problem that stuck with me for, like, over a month.
Every problem in my life...
Don't you agree? Do you think so?
Yeah, I do.
Like, time will solve that problem, I think.
Have you been, like, depressed?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, for, like...
Like, when I first entered...
The thing that first came into my mind was when I first entered my first corporate job, the chemical company.
Yeah.
And the first few weeks were like, "This environment will kill me."
"This environment will, like, absolutely drain my mind."
"Will drain my... my, like, ability to be human."
Yeah.
Right?
Like, wake up at a certain time and enter the door.
Yeah.
Sit down before 9 o'clock.
Whatever work my boss tells me to do.
Yeah.
And, um...
Yeah.
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And finish work, go home, and hopefully go to the gym.
Yeah.
And, you know, continuation of that life...
Is very dangerous.
Yeah, it would...
I thought I would die.
So, like, that...
I was not happy.
So, that's why I took action.
But, um...
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Have you ever, like, done something wrong?
Or, like, failed from something?
Like...
Ah...
Like...
Did you...
Did the examination?
Like, entering examination to the university?
Yes, I've done that before.
And, um, I have failed.
Oh, really?
But, um...
How was that?
It was...
It was sad.
But, like...
Right, it was sad.
But, like, I had to change my mind.
Like, I have to change my mindset.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
From, like, I can't stay sad like this.
Like, I have to move forward.
Sure.
Right?
So, did you something...
Did you do something special?
Um...
Like...
I...
I talked to myself.
Oh, okay.
In my mind.
Like, "Okay, Kevin.
Right now, you're depressed.
Because you failed at the exam.
At whatever test.
Right?
And then, okay.
What can I do to...
Yeah.
To improve myself?
Or what can I do to not be depressed and move on with my life?
Yeah.
And I go, "Okay, maybe I should work on this.
Or maybe I should, um, appreciate that I already have this."
Mm-hmm.
Or, like, maybe I should, you know, work on this more
so that I'll be happier.
Yeah.
Then I just execute onto what I've decided.
Okay.
That's what I did.
Uh-huh.
That's cool.
Yeah.
How about you, man?
Like...
Uh...
First, go to my bed and sleep.
Ah.
Sleeping.
And next day, I will be forgetting everything.
So, start...
I will restart.
Next day, you'll forget everything.
Yeah, I will forget everything.
Yeah, yeah.
One point English there, right there.
Yeah, I will forget everything.
So, um...
Yeah.
But, you know, when we...
When we made a mistake,
we tend to feel like we lose something.
But actually, we lose nothing, you know?
Mm.
Good point.
Yeah, it just not happened.
Right.
We are already at the point.
Right.
Just, you know, we don't lose nothing.
Mm-hmm.
So just think about that.
Think about that and, like, take a step forward again.
That's all for me.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
100%.
Yeah.
I get that.
Uh-huh.
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Yeah.
So, what was her name again?
Fusen Fursan.
Fusen Fursan.
Yeah.
Like, find another Fusen, right?
Like, find another balloon and blow into that.
Yeah.
Oh, nice one.
Yeah, that's right.
Like...
It's okay.
Like, there's lots of Fusens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You lose nothing.
Mm-hmm.
Like...
I like that.
You lose nothing.
You actually do lose nothing.
Yeah.
Even the time you studied, that's an upside.
Right.
Like, you didn't lose that time that you studied.
You gained knowledge.
Yeah.
Right.
That's a good point.
It's a really good point.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
That was a good episode.
Yeah, good question.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you.
Good question, Fusen Fursan.
Yeah.
All right.
Bye-bye, guys.
See you again.
you again.
