The sounds under the water, when was the first time I heard the sounds in the water? The sounds of air bubbles from my mouths. The sounds with different frequency similar to ultrasounds but never heard of them outside the water. The sounds in the water are the sounds we heard in our mothers' wombs. That's true. But I was afraid whenever I dove into the water when I was little. The sounds in the water made me feel like I was sucked into the endless deep end although I was freely floating in the water in my mother's womb just about few years ago¡KI was thinking about these things while I was under the water.

I wanted to get away from my everyday life and empty out my mind; that's why I was swimming hard. But, I was thinking about many unnecessary things. I should swim more. The time is passing. The body feels lighter when swimming exhausts me. It feels like I am flying in the air with a bunch of birds. Recently, I saw a bunch of birds. It was one fine summer day with a strong wind. I saw them when I was standing on the huge prairie which is, unbelievably, near Tokyo. Sometimes, we see a shell grass parakeet , which run away from a cage, wondering in a bunch of sparrows in some residential areas. I pretended like the wondering parakeet while I was singing "Beautiful" with my guitar. The view of green prairie from the sky made me almost dizzy. " I never knew how glorious the winds, the flowers and the Sun/ Ah Beautiful"¡KI felt like this lyrics because of that wonderful natural surroundings.

Then, I keep swimming. The sounds of water became a little bit farther than before. I realized that I was almost becoming a part of water. May be, this is what "the water is the origin of all life forms" means¡K I was able to rest my tired body and switch my channel to come back to the reality. It was not a bird or a fish reflecting in the wet glass window but it was me who looked a little bit tired.

Usually, I don't feel stress. However, lately, I want to leave myself in the gentle unrealistic world rather than staying in the reality. Why? Of course, people deal with stress in many different ways. Yet, there is not such a person who does not feel stress. Then, how about go with the flow thinking it is natural to feel stress some time. It is not really necessary to swim to the limit to empty out my mind, is it? Well, in my case, some meanings and explanations come out of something totally meaningless. To be a bird, to be a fish¡Kthen, my stress is gone.