"What is traveling? What do I want? And why do I want it? (why do I write?)
I want to re-experience my year in Japan. Remember as much of it as I can. All the sporadic details. People, food, places, customs, quirks. Why? Because I feel like that was the best year of my life and I want to know if it was because of the place, the people, the customs, the food, or me. If it was because I allowed myself to be who I real am. And if the second is true, if I can recreate that trueness, that realness, in the here and now, where I am living, to see if I can have that happiness in my daily life. And that just might be writing about where I've been, what I've experienced, and sharing it with others. Because I cannot live in Japan for the rest of my life, like I would love to, I have come to realize that writing about my experiences will give me that time back in Japan. It will allow me to go there while still being here in America. It will give me that happiness I felt while there, even though I am not physically in the space called Japan, my mind can freely go there whenever I write about it. And that is something magical. There are two way to go about life after Japan, I've found: living sad and depressed and angry at my life now and how it is not Japan, OR reliving my time in Japan through writing about it and reading more about Japan/learning more about Japan so that when I DO go back, I can have a good amount of information to draw on and experience Japan to the fullest while I am there. I choose to look forward and move towards happiness. I choose to be a writer.
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