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Welcome back to another episode of Kevin's English Room Podcast!
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You're energetic today!
I am energetic today!
You have a big voice!
Yeah, thank you!
Okay, so today...
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Uh...
I would have been working in Canada at this time if there were no virus pandemic.
Yes!
It would have been completely different if I were not divorced when I was 27.
Yes.
Uh, so what's the biggest...
Uh...
Oh, basically...
What's the biggest turning point you've had?
Okay.
Hmm...
Turning point...
Was that related? The coronavirus thing and the divorce thing, was that related to the question?
Yeah, that's what she told us.
In her case, that was the coronavirus and divorce was two big...
Turning point.
Turning point. Two big points.
I don't think there was...
See, I don't think of life that way.
I don't think there are turning points.
It's...
I agree with you.
Oh, you do?
Right. I actually never thought that my life had been turned to anywhere.
There's only one narrative.
Right.
And you don't know what the other story would have been if you would have chose a different thing.
Right. I understand that.
So there's only one road.
Right.
And there's no turning points to me.
Right.
It's just a life takes you wherever it takes you kind of mentality.
Right.
So that wraps up the episode.
Okay.
Alright.
Yeah, that's what I think too, actually.
Wow, okay.
But you know, like, think about you moved to Japan.
Well, people might say that's the big turning point of yours.
And you started a business of your own.
That's the turning point maybe.
You're out from the company.
That was the big turning point.
I mean, same as like me waking up at 12 o'clock instead of 9 could have been a big turning point.
Yeah.
Because I noticed something that I didn't.
Right.
Right?
That could have changed my life.
It's the same possibility.
Me going to Shibuya instead of Ikebukuro today could have been a big turnout because I've met someone, maybe a girl of my life that would have happened.
You know, it's just you can't really quantify the outcome.
There's no way of calculating the possibilities of how your life would have went if you've chosen a different action.
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Yeah.
Well, I mean.
Oh, I completely agree with you.
Yeah.
It's really fresh to me.
Yeah.
Right.
That's what I think.
But, like, I do, there are big choices that I've made.
Right.
For example, like what you said, me quitting my corporate job or starting my own business or like, you know, being deciding deciding to for myself to be committed as an influencer.
That was a big deal, too.
Right.
There are big choices, but like I don't know what my life would have been like if I didn't choose that option.
You know.
So, well, some of the big choices I've made were the biggest was me quitting.
Me changing my first job.
First job.
Right.
First job was was the biggest, I guess.
Well, no, I guess me quitting Starbucks and starting my own new restaurant.
That was a huge thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's huge.
That's pretty huge.
Yeah.
Right.
I think so.
What was your biggest, biggest choice?
Choice?
Yeah.
Me went to France.
I was a high school student.
That was the biggest for me.
Okay.
High school?
All of high school?
No, no, no.
Just one year.
One year of high school?
About one year, yeah.
Wait, wait.
Which year of high school did you start going?
The summer of second year.
Summer of second year.
Yeah.
Second year to the fall of third year.
So half a year?
No.
Four year?
One year and a half.
And a half.
Yeah.
Just a little bit.
So when you came back to Japan, did you do the education that you missed out during the
stay in France?
No.
Not during.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you?
Actually, yeah.
Did you?
Yeah.
Did you go to high school for more longer period of time than other people?
No.
Three year.
Just three years?
Because we were born in the same year and same...
Right, right, right.
So I...
Wait, so the time you were missing out, the Japanese education high school, when you were
in France, how did you make up for that?
Did you not make up for that?
Well, I did.
How?
Well, after my school finishes.
Oh, you self-educated?
Yeah.
Wow.
I like studying actually.
Oh, okay, okay.
So it's not a problem for me.
It's just...
It's interesting.
Yeah.
But one thing I missed was Bukkatsudo, the soccer club.
You missed out on that.
You need other people.
Right.
Yeah.
What was the original question?
What was your big choice?
Right, turning point.
Big choice.
Is there any other big choices you've made in your life?
Big choice.
I went to the university that we went.
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I chose that university.
Wait, wait, hold on.
I got to back up a little bit.
What was the kattou you had with you in France?
In France?
Yeah.
Well, you know...
If it's a big choice for you, you were weighing the ups and the downs, right?
What was the downs?
I mean, it's not something upside and downside.
France was completely unknown place.
For you.
Yeah.
So, naturally thinking, I think I was going to school for three years in Japan and did...
Well, school life.
You know, that's natural, quite natural to me.
Yes.
But?
But I, you know, decided to go to the different place.
But you wanted to, right?
Yes.
It was your choice.
Yeah, it was my choice.
So, I feel like, you know, more of the excitement, you know, I think excitement would outweigh the cons.
Did that not happen?
Well, that probably happened.
That's why you chose to go there.
But like, the cons, how was the...
Was that the only downside you had of you going to France?
I mean, I didn't know what would be the downside, absolutely.
Got it, got it, got it.
And what would be the good side.
Like, that's why it was tough choice.
Why did you go to France?
What was the original idea?
Actually, I want to see something new.
I mean, I really wanted to go somewhere I don't know and try to see new world and try to see new me.
Got it, got it, got it, got it.
Yeah, I want to, you know, make something happen to my life.
Why France?
Well, actually, France was the most, you know, different country to me at that time.
You know, America was a little bit closer to me.
Like, there were McDonald's, like many American restaurants and American movies and TV.
So, and I learned English at the junior high.
So, it was a little bit closer to me.
And France, European country, especially France was really far to me.
I couldn't understand a single word of French language.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So, the first day at France, you did not know any...
You know, just bonjour, merci.
Right, the basic, basic words.
That's the only... really?
Basically, yeah.
How did you communicate?
I don't know.
You don't know.
It just happened.
Yeah, but I think I was speaking something French.
You were doing something.
I think so.
You were magically speaking French.
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Right.
Okay, tell me about what was the other... what was your next big...
Oh, the...
You deciding to enter a college, university, our college, okay.
That was big for you?
What?
That was big for you?
Yeah.
Why?
Because I actually didn't think, didn't think me going to that... this college.
Actually, I had another college that I thought that I would go.
And at the time, you know, in my high school, learning...
Do you know learning?
I know what that is.
It's quite natural.
And almost every people do learning and go to the college that they want to go.
So it was quite unnatural in my environment to go to that college, you know.
Without learning.
Without learning.
You know, even for me, I didn't went to Japanese high school fully, I mean three years.
Yeah.
So for all the teachers and friends recommended to me to do learning and, you know, go to
that university that you want.
But was it the university that you wanted to go?
The one you went?
The one you decided?
Was it the one you wanted to go?
Our university?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, finally, yeah.
Oh.
And now I'm happy with that choice.
Okay.
But at the time, that wasn't that university.
Did you not want to do the learning or why?
Ah, I don't know.
But I, you know, at the time, I thought so many things.
And finally, I know my result was I don't know.
Okay.
You know, it's not I can tell the future.
It's just had chance to that college.
Just got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Got it.
You know, if I have something that I can compare, that will be easy choice for me.
Yeah.
If I if I think that's, you know, better to me, or definitely choice, take that.
But the case I can't compare, like, don't know what will be happen.
And if it's completely different, right, that's tough choice to me.
Right.
Um, I think you could agree with this, but I, I hardly ever regret a decision I make.
Do you agree with that?
Because you don't know what the other outcome is.
Right.
And I'm happy now.
Yeah.
I make the decision that's best at that moment.
Right.
And that was it.
That was the only factor that really matters.
Right.
So it's not something that I think now.
Uh huh.
Look back.
Right.
You think, oh, I should have went this way instead of what's what's happening now.
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Right.
That never happens.
Right.
I totally understand that.
Mm hmm.
That was a surprising thing that we had in common.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
Right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
This podcast will be the turning point of someone.
Maybe.
Maybe.
That's exciting if you think about it like that.
Yeah.
Maybe one movie will change someone's life.
That's so interesting.
You know, the factor of life.
Yeah.
Maybe one that is that we made.
Yeah.
Will change someone's life.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
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