What I don't have anymore
‘Excuse me, I seem to have lost something,‘ I said gaining the attention of a station attendant standing next to a ticket window. ‘Just a few minutes ago my iPod fell from my pocket and I was wondering if someone stopped by here and dropped it off.’ Kyoto station at 8am in the morning recovering from a bad night of sleep, a fight with my girlfriend and the beginnings of a cold on my way to work, I knew it wasn’t going to be a good day.
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Time to call it quits like these leaves
Something dawned on me as I sat staring at my computer at work last week. How it had slipped my mind after thinking about it so much I don’t know but it did. I pulled out my wallet to check the date on my Japanese green card and sure enough I had missed it, my five year anniversary of coming to Japan. I let out a sharp laugh causing my coworkers to look up. ‘Is everything okay?’ one asked with a puzzled face.
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Not this Thanksgiving
How do you feel about Thanksgiving? How do you feel about Independence Day? What do you think about Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, even Christmas? What goes through your mind those days and weeks before they arrive? Do you even notice them as they pass by or are they just another date on the calendar?
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