When Dave, our new ALT, and I were talking last week,

he said something like this: "One person you come across could entirely change your life."

Who do I have?

As I have written here before, my life, especially in terms of learning English and living abroad, has been affected by a few of the most powerfully influencing people you probably could meet in your life.

When Dave said that, I was really, yes REALLY, amazed. Well, his words just have me kept on thinking what if I were the one who changed somebody else's life in a good way?

Have I ever had the power to influence somebody's life? I know not.

But one thing I want to say is that people you unawarely have saved before will remember that you are the one who changed their lives--changed the ways they thought they'd live with.

Today's entry is not about me talking about life lessons but is about the reason that I love this globally spoken language - English.

When I speak in Japanese, I sometimes cannot find any good words to express what I am thinking and feeling. But I can in English.

Have you ever had this kind of experience?

It is so much easier in English than in Japanese to say precisely how I feel.

Who could say, "One person you come across could entirely change your life" to a person whom you just met a couple hours ago?

I can't!

Yet I think that English enables us to expand our horizons and to explore the world by letting our thoughts fly like free birds that know exactly where to go.

Since coming back to Japan, I have once feared that I would lose my English, but I was wrong.

Having seen other parts of the world and learned a new language that is very useful to express my feelings now helps me see the world and people in a totally different way.

This experience has been keeping me excited because now I feel that I have finally befriended with English.