Tag: Personal

I Been Lazy

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Quietly sitting at work… It’s been the slowest most boring Sunday I can ever remember. We should really close sooner but hey they’re asking me to work and they are willing to pay me. Shouldn’t complain but it gets too quiet for too long. The silence puts a malaise over me. I feel like I’m just melting into a pile. Lately I’ve been feeling like that in my personal life. I need to get my ass back in the gym. I’ve done a good job not smoking cigarettes for almost a week. Need to lose some pounds, get my ass out to the club, and socialize a bit. Make new acquaintances, friends, maybe meet someone I’m interested in beyond friendship. Gotta stop being lazy and get my ass going. Need to some things. Lay down too often and just watch TV. Gotta make more out of my time and freedom.

Shinkansen

This will probably be my last post from this trip. I’m on a Shinkansen to Tokyo. We visited Osaka Castle and it’s lovely park today. Next visit, I’ll plan to stay in cities for two or three days instead of one. There’s too much to enjoy in one day or afternoon. It’s been like cram school but without a doubt I want to return again. My interest in Japan started with anime but I’m leaving Japan tomorrow knowing there’s peaceful air here. Life seems simpler here. It can be slow but also bustling. You can work hard in Tokyo, play hard in Osaka, and find peace in Nara. 

My knowledge about traveling jumped to an new level in just a week and I’ll remember my experiences in Japan forever. I managed to save all the literature collected over the last few days. Those will help me for next time. Nara and Osaka especially require a solid three days to enjoy at a leisurely pace. I could spend a day in silence at the deer park or spend all night raging in Osaka. It’s an amazing place and the adjective doesn’t describe my affection for the country enough. It’s like music or sex. There’s a unique kind satisfaction I can’t from anything else. I love it here. 

Tonight, Andrew and I will hit Golden Gai in Shinjuku for genteel send off. Seeing him was the other half of the trip. Absolutely Japan gave me more than I ever imagined but seeing him on the other side of the world fulfilled the void of not seeing him for a while. He’s got a great situation teaching English and more importantly he loves it. I’m glad to have seen him and I know our friendship radiates like the temple of Kinkaku-Ji. I wondered for a while if anything could be forever. Our friendship almost ten years later gets only better when we can take the time out of our lives to spend a few days together across an ocean from where we met. This is friendship. 

Kyoto to Osaka


Quick update from Japan. So far we’ve visited Nara, Kyoto, and making our way to Osaka. Nara was honestly one of the most satisfying or fulfilling experiences of my life. It’s the joy or eureka one feels from personal success, redemption, accomplishment, discovery, love, whatever word you want you use. I would almost call it spiritual, somewhat religious. Nara was incredible and I’ll post about it in detail later. 

Right now I’m on a bus to Gion, in Kyoto, to do some shopping. Then if we make good time we’ll rage in Osaka. Hopefully we can have an unforgettable night. Wednesday I’ll head to Shinjuku to hang out and go all fucking out with Andrew at Golden Gai. It’s a famous area in Tokyo known for it’s small micro bars. We’ll break bread one last time before I take off. 

Visiting Japan, breathing, drinking, eating, sleeping, sitting down to smoke a cigarette with my feet up fulfills me. I should really stop smoking lol. I need to get my ass in the gym and bust my fat ass like I was! Anyway we’re getting close to getting off in Gion. See you soon.