SAWARA ISLAND
“The first known infections from SARS-CoV-2 were discovered in Wuhan, China. The source of viral transmission to humans remains unclear, as does whether the virus became pathogenic before or after the spillover event.”-News.
Life changed when the covid-19 occurred, but not the life of Rae Abbey, a 22-year-old girl who lived in Sawara Island, a 24-hour ride from Tokyo. That was three years ago when she got her feet off the city. She still remembers how it felt like going home, far from crowded people, noisy busses, and polluted air that would only make her nose sneeze. Although she knew that life on the Island was far different from the city, she also knew what was at risk if she stayed. She never regretted everything she did. She was really like an early bird who had just gotten out of a cage for a very long time. She couldn’t even wait to feel her feet touch the sea and scream her heart out at the top of a cliff. No one knew what she was going through or how she felt maybe if you’d have time to ask her. However, even if you tried, she’d never tell you; she wasn’t the girl who would love talking about her life with just whoever. She was the girl who would love doing things at the back scene and would want no attention from anyone. Back then, her life was quiet, but her mind had a lot of things to say. If she could write everything she thought, she could finish a book in just a day.
I had known Abbey my whole life. She’s always there whenever a friend needed someone they could talk to; although she loved reading a book while her friend did the talking, they knew from the heart that she was paying attention to everything they said. And it did not exempt me from that.