8年振りにアメリカから友人が一時帰国するというので、懐かしい顔ぶれに会う為に実家に帰省。
本当に学生時代の仲間で集まるのは久しぶりでしたが、一瞬にしてあの頃に戻る感じは何なんでしょうね。
皆結婚して子供が出来て親になり、時間の流れを感じるのですが、屈託の無い笑顔を見ると何だか不思議な気分になります。
あの頃、それぞれが思い描いてた自分になれたかはわかりませんが、人生を必死に生きてきた同志と笑顔で再会出来たことに感謝です。
生きてさえいれば何かがあるものですね。
月明かりの下、帰り道を一時帰国した彼と2人で喋りながら歩く。
思い返せばデビューシングルのレコーディングでLAに行き、偶然モールで留学中の彼と遭遇したり、彼はそのままアメリカで結婚し永住権を得て、アメリカツアーには毎回どこか遊びに来てくれたりと不思議な縁が付きまとう。
昔、こうやって2人で歩いてる時に彼に言われた一言が今も残ってる。
彼はもうきっと忘れてしまってるかもしれないが、その言葉を肝に銘じて今まで生きてきた。
そして、これからも忘れずに生きていきたい。
また、アメリカツアーで会おう。
月明かりの下、またいつか2人で色々話しながら歩こう。
Toshiya
A friend of mine is temporarily returning to Japan from the U.S. for the first time in eight years, so I went back to my parents' house to see some faces I haven’t seen for a while.
It has been a really long time not meeting up with my buddies from school days, and I wonder how can it be that, just in a blink of an eye, you feel like you are back to those days.
All of them got married, had babies and became parents. Even though it makes me feel how much time has passed, looking at their carefree smiles gives me a unique feeling somehow.
I don't know if each one of them became the person they dreamed to be back then, but I’m grateful that I had the chance to meet those companions who have been living their lives giving it their all again with smiles on our faces.
As long as we are alive, there is always something, isn’t it?
Under the moonlight, walking on the way back home, I talk with the guy who is temporarily back in Japan, just the two of us.
Looking back, I feel like a mysterious fate bounds us: I went to LA for the recording of our debut single and accidentally ran into him, who was an overseas student there, at the mall, then he got married in the U.S. becoming a permanent resident, and every time we are touring the U.S. he always comes see us somewhere.
I still remember something he said to me long time ago, while walking together like this.
Maybe he has already forgotten about it by now, but I have lived my life to this day with those words into my mind.
And I want to keep on living without forgetting them from now on as well.
Let's meet again during the U.S. tours.
Let's talk again about any kind of things again, while walking under the moonlight.
Toshiya