There is only 148 days left until Japan 5.0 and I can not wait until another most epic adventure in a place I know as home. Japan is much more then just a destination, a vacation or even a place to get lost but a place that grounds me in reality.
Japan has become so much more than just a place half way around the world that I love finding myself. And even as I say that I imagine a reboot of the iconic show Mary Taylor Moore show. I imagine the same sort of iconic opening of Mary twellering around in Manhattan but instead in Shibuya near the famous Hatchi statue throwing up her iconic hat.
Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, have become more of a religion to me. There is something about being half around the world on an island where you are away and apart from everything, there is nothing you can do, or be apart of once you step off the plane as you are apart of a whole new world, where everything is new, and the people I want to meet are already there.
When I am in Japan I am constantly apart of a happening. Whether as the main character to my own story, or a background character to the story unfolding around me, I am always center stage. The feeling at first is a foreign one as I have almost all but scummed to Stockholm Syndrome. As hard as I try to fight against the tide somehow spite my best efforts it pulls me out to sea leaving the shoreline a fleeting idea on the horizon, and subject to the illusions and madness of the open sea.
The feeling is fleeting and quickly replaced with the euphoric sense of being a desire of excitement and adventure. A love for life with bleieif that anything as possible. Even just thinking about it excites me to the point that I break out of my funk my shell and see life again as if for the first time.
This trip though is different. I am going not because I have anything particular that I want to see or do. Most of all I want to be there and just be apart of the happening. I want to be able to go out and do things, meet people, adventure, the ability to learn about myself and the world around me.
I am excited about everything and all the wonderful happenings and opportunists to come. I plant to put good karama out into the universe and have good karma come back to me.
One thing I am starting to learn is the fact that I have to stop trying to put together things that are already sort of assembled, and embrace