Tokyo, Japan, looms less than five months away, and I can’t wait. I believe that in Japan, especially in Kyoto, anything is possible, as if there is magic everywhere. I am leaving amazing karma out into the world, believing that positive and wonderful events and happenings will transpire because of it. Life sometimes needs a spark that puts reality in motion. Too often, we get caught up in our daily routine that we often forget and lose our step before we trip and fall, eventually leading us to a downward spiral. The spiral eventually leads to a rut in which we find ourselves in leaving some to question life. Was this how life was meant to be spent, lived, endured, a routine a program a constant grind, a misery beat. If anything, Japan shakes me loose from the grasp of despair and allows me to see life and reality again for the first time. Maybe it’s not about everything being possible, or a specific kind of magic, maybe it’s just removing oneself from those specific circumstances and problems.
Only on vacation do we allow ourselves to be removed from our circumstances and situations, but all too often we think of vacation as sitting on a beach or relaxing in some far-off place, and just going in and out with the tide. For me, time off is far more than going in and out with the tide, or just going through the emotions of what is happening in and around you. I think that is why so many people cling to nature and the outdoors, and rightfully so. The peace and tranquility that it brings is out of this world. The warm, quiet breeze that blows off the lake, or the peaceful, cool breeze that blows, plays its melodic sound as it cuts through the trees overhead in the mountains.
I found that there is quite a sense of being and quite a sense of living, being a part of nature is calming and restores us before returning to the programmed world of our lives. Tokyo and Japan have brought to me this sense of always being able to be a part of something while being a part of nothing. Tokyo is said to be one of the loneliest places on earth, and it is completely understandable. Completely understandable considering all the people that become shut-ins, homeless, and others that pull away from the life that Tokyo and Japan are. I can be the main star of my own story and the background character to another’s. For me, the feeling of always being a part of something, even when I go to bed at some point from sheer exhaustion, I know that the city is still turning in another one of its many dynamics. Probably for the same reasons I love sitting in cafes and penning out different thoughts ideas hopes and plans for the future.
When I was in Kyoto with my friends, we made some friends the last night we were there. One of them was named Brittney, who was from L.A., and was also a fellow accountant. After catching up, and I myself going out with one of the friends that they had made on the journey, I found myself once again running into her, the last day we were in Japan. When you consider the randomness of everything, and of all the places and times that we could have been in the same place, what was it something like 41 million to 1? With magic in life like that and good karma, how can I not want to say yes to life, how can I not want to run with life and see what magic awaits in the infinite world of possibilities?
When you live a life of grand happenings and adventure, there is no way you can not dream big in your ordinary life. With the good karma out into the universe, I look forward to seeing how doing something nice for someone will return. I am keeping optimistic and positive about this and everything else. I know I still have a lot of obstacles to overcome and solve, but I welcome the challenge and the rewards that follow.