the idea of discoverying things on your own, at your own pace, to explore little nuances that only you can appreciate...entices.
to freeze time and be captured in the moment. I want to be in that vessel for as long as it takes to make the memory last forever.
-screencap from the last scene of Shakespear in Love
4 love letters:
The first time I went to Japan, I was alone. I was there to work, but I was just writing about a video game show so it's not like my time was filled with business meetings or anything. I went all over Tokyo and Chiba, wandering around by myself, and I don't speak Japanese! I figured out ways to get by. In Tokyo it's not that hard... outside Tokyo, it's not so easy. But I didn't want to stay only where it was "safe".
I totally fell in love with Japan on that trip, and it's still one of the most amazing memories I have. I had no distractions, I could do what I wanted, and I felt like I was part of a totally alien culture where I had to forget everything I knew and re-learn it all in different ways. You don't get that when you're with a group of people; you make your own little culture and insulate yourself from the outside. You can't do that alone.
That trip literally changed my life. No doubt some people in that situation would go into culture shock, but at the end of the trip, I didn't want to go home.
i wondered around london by myself and it was wonderful and all my own memory.
beautiful. hopefully i have something equally poignant to share.
you always have poignant stuff to share! that's why i keep reading your blog... :)
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