Coming down a mountain path alone
Are you scared of meeting a ghost..
Or are you scared of meeting a person..
In some survey
I've seen that overwhelmingly the latter was more common..
Crime existed in the past and exists now equally
In the past..
Because it was an era when everyone knew who the people in their neighborhood were
I think fear of people might have been less than now..thoughts like that come to me..
In this current era..
In fact, there are countless people who don't even know who their neighbors are
Night roads..even if it's your own neighborhood
When you meet a person in an empty place
I'm not sure if that's why people are scared..
When I go to Korea once in a while..
It seems I mainly go during winter..
My mother's place requires about a 10-minute walk inward from the main road..
When I go to Korea, I often meet friends, drink, and go home late..
There's a woman walking ahead
Our directions are sometimes exactly the same..
Since I need to go home too, I follow behind that woman
She keeps looking back..in an unpleasant way..
So..
Ah..she's scared because someone's following her at night..
I thought I should pass her
I speed up my pace..
But..
As I speed up, the woman also speeds up..
Since if a man has drawn a knife, he must follow through
Just as I'm about to pass her by speeding up almost in alarm..
Tilting her head back and looking to the side..
She lets out a startled cry..an unlucky(?) sound..
I thought I was being considerate by passing her..
I understand that she's startled and scared because the world is so ominous..
But it didn't feel good being treated that way when I'm someone who lives honestly..
So after that..
When there's a woman ahead, I follow slowly behind
Humming songs to myself..
And I call my friends for no reason..
In movies, criminals follow quietly and stab with knives..
So I say "I'm behind you..."
I make noise openly..
The problem with this is..
If the woman's pace is a bit slow
It's incredibly cold to follow slowly in the middle of winter..
Since I've lived in tropical regions
I'm very sensitive to cold..
So eventually I can't help but pass the woman..
I think she's still startled when I pass..
I don't know what the world is coming to..
We've become an era where people are more feared than ghosts
It's truly bitter beyond measure..
In the future, if such a situation arises
A few meters before passing the woman, so she won't be startled
I plan to tell her beforehand..
' I'm..passing now~~ '
Will I get reported..?
