【神回】英語力ゼロ時代から見続けてきたライアン鈴木さんとロンドンで会うことができました！！

★Ryan Suzuki's Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ryansuzuki65... ★Ryan's Video    • #8【恐怖】ロンドンで突然ストーカーに絡まれヤバい展開に...   ★Ryan's Instagram   / ryansuzukibungkeng   ★An Instagram post expressing my passionate feelings for Ryan at the time https://www.instagram.com/p/CHX8020j4... ★Video of the day I decided to meet Ryan    • 【緊急】ロンドンにいるライアン鈴木を探しに行きます   When I started learning English from scratch three years ago, Ryan was the one who made me think, "I want to speak English like him!" And it was him who taught me the joy of English. I've been watching him through the screen ever since. Now, this person I idolized was sitting in the same place as me, in London, a foreign land... I traveled from the countryside to the capital, London, to meet him and express my gratitude... -December 2019. At the time, I was feeling hopeless about my future. At 26, many of my friends were getting married and starting families. Instagram was filled with photos of them looking so happy. Some had bought houses, and others were steadily building their careers. I stopped my right thumb from scrolling through my smartphone screen and asked myself. "What do you have?" Nothing came to mind. Because I had never made an effort in my life. I hated effort to the point that if Ichiro or Keisuke Honda saw me, their negative aura would make them want to run away. I thought everything I did was "annoying," and when I saw people putting in effort, I would mentally criticize them, saying, "That's not going to work." In doing so, I justified my inaction. "You can get by in life without trying hard." That was fine until I was in college. Well, looking back now, it's not good at all, but let's take the powerful words "youthful folly" for now. The problem started after that. After graduating from college, I got a job at a local financial institution through connections. That's understandable, since my student days were dominated by two choices: "sleep" or "go to the smoking area," and my IQ was a hopelessly low 38. I didn't have the guts or experience to properly job-hunt, so I ended up getting a job at a prestigious financial institution with the help of a regular at my part-time job. "See? (lol) You can get into a financial institution without even trying." With his fully grown nose, the "nose financial institution" was a perfect fit for this guy. Back to the story, it was from this point on that I realized my life was wrong. Low salary, drudgery, and endless yelling. I quickly overcame the triple threat of a black company. "I can't do this anymore," "I need to change jobs," "Japan is rubbish." I would think these things every morning on the train to work, then come in and leave, and my mind would become a completely different person. I'll save the story of that time for another time, but I was 23 at the time and realized, "This is what it means to live in Japan." The flower of the elite salaryman I had imagined had fleetingly faded away. Three years had passed, and at 26, I was working at a sales company. My father's company. To be honest, I think this was a great source of comfort, or rather, an escape route, for me. After all, I had often relied on this as a motto, saying, "Even if I don't try hard, I'll eventually take over my father's company and become president." But the reality was different. The stress of knowing that the company would go bankrupt if I didn't generate sales on my own, the prejudice of being the president's son, and above all, the uncertainty of the industry's future. Even a fool like me with an IQ of 38 thought this. "My life is in trouble if it continues like this." And so my perfect (according to my IQ of 38) life plan came crashing down. "I'll have a background in financial institutions, become the second president, live freely surrounded by money and women, buy luxury watches and cars, post on Instagram..." This shallow, idealistic idea, the kind that delinquents would love, made me feel cold. Anyway, I thought. "I'm in trouble if I don't start something." But what could I do? I hadn't put in any effort or studied up until then, and everything I learned in school was long forgotten. Then I discovered English. "This is it! This is it!" "If I become fluent in English, I'll be the envy of those around me and I'll be able to build a solid career out of it." Back in December 2019. I was scrolling through Instagram when an ad for online English lessons landed on my finger. I remembered a YouTube video I'd previously seen about "becoming fluent in English through online English lessons." Thank you, YouTube. Thank you, AI. With this gratitude in my heart, I tried the online English conversation course Native Camp for a month, aiming to become fluent. It was a complete failure. That's because I was a hopeless student who would sleep with my head on my desk during class in middle and high school, and who would kill time in the smoking area wit...