Even though I grew up in a really small place and haven't gone outside the southeastern US besides that semester in Japan, I've felt really aware of the world around me lately. I feel like I've been talking too much about Japan lately too...sorry about that. I'm not sure why that place intrigues me so much. I think it's the politeness intertwined with the language, how easier it is to express emotion in Japanese, the offbeat humor...
...It's definitely not the food, I know that much. To be honest, to me, most of it is just okay or makes me go "eww...."
I'd really like to travel the world someday. I want to go to Europe, Australia, Peru, maybe South Africa...I think it'd be cool if I could say someday, "I've been to every continent." But seeing as how that would require a lot of money...that may not happen. But maybe I can go to one or two of those places before I die. I hope so.
I would like to learn more languages too- maybe dust off my Spanish, Arabic, French...Swahili, maybe? First, though, I want to get fluent in Japanese. I think it'd be nice to sit down with a person from a different culture and talk about our different lives in that person's native language. I want to be able to share stories without a language barrier- that's one of my lifetime goals, I believe.
I want a goal to work toward. I want to do my best, even if I sweat and bleed, to work towards something with all I have for something that I want with all my heart. Even if I never actually make it, if I see myself getting closer, won't that be fulfilling somehow...?
...I want to start cooking again. I want to learn new dishes and stand over a hot stove and proudly display the fruits of my labor. I kinda miss it.
I keep telling my sister I'll take her to Japan with me next time I go, and I'll translate. I think that would be fun. But I think I'd really just like to go to a foreign country with her someday...hopefully we'll have matured enough to not kill each other because we'd be spending so much time together.
Honestly...I really want to grow out of that.
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