I've already lived volumes in the two months before I decided to begin this blog. I've had adventures both solumn and outrageous, met people the likes of which I have never before, and stared down one or two personal philosophical conundrums along the way. Perhaps I'll be able to extrapolate on these things in later posts, but for now I would like to focus on the present.
This blog will, for the most part, be about my experiences teaching, living, and travelling in Japan. There is much to say on this subject, and I want to say it. I'm quite bad at keeping up with this sort of thing, but I figure I'll give it a try.
Everyday is a sort of adventure when one lives in a foreign country. Places feel grander and more meaningful. People's backstories seem more interesting, from the grandest official to the most meagre of laborers.
There is also a dark side to these feelings. There are times when isolation becomes haunting, cities labarinthine and towns puzzling. It can be difficult to communicate with others, to the point where both parties can abandon the conversation entirely. People's motivations and feelings can seem entirely esoteric, like echoes lost in a hall of mirrors. These feelings; however; are eclipsed by their positive counterparts more often than not.
I hope you'll follow along with me as I let loose the hounds of my mind upon this blog.
Sincerely,
Richard Harris
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