Tuned In
"There are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast all around you from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies are not in phase with each other. Each station has a different frequency, a different energy. As a result, your radio can only be turned to one broadcast at a time. Likewise, in our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them."
Professor Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)
"However, what if we could tune into a parallel reality? What if?"
Silverwing013, author on fanfiction (2011)
Written Friday, May 26, 1989 of this world
Today, one of the students shyly came up to me when I was searching the library for books about mythology for a teacher. Nervously, she introduced herself as Natsuko and asked me if I was a volunteer or a student teacher.
Well, I am kind of both since I am volunteering but hope to become a teacher someday. I told her so.
Somehow it wound up that I spent the next half hour helping Natsuko with her algebra homework in understanding it. The small girl is a friendly one, if a bit nervous when first speaking with someone. She slowly opened up and I found she has a love of music. Together we created a little diddy to help her remember a formula. She kept thanking me as she left, insisting on how my explanation was more helpful than the math teacher or her friend's attempts.
Really, I did not do all that much. I only like helping people figure out things.
"Tancho, you should really tutor or set up a study hall. I'd go all the time. I'm telling Mister Takanaka about you. Oh! I'm sorry if I'm embarrassing you!"
She's quite the little polite girl, very nervous on doing something wrong. It's cute. The large glasses magnifying her eyes help her look even cuter.
I'd be really amazing if I could help out more students every day. I would love doing that. And if I recall, Mister Takanaka was one of the highly praised teachers around this junior high. Natsuko is so sweet in trying to help me do what I love after how I answered her first question.
However, I cannot shake the feeling that I should know more about her. Natsuko seems a bit familiar in all her apologetic mannerisms.
Thanks to S. A. Raven and OhhTaylorJade.
