TOKYO
Talk about an unimaginative title. Its not technically correct since I spent less than a day in Tokyo.
Whats in a holiday? What does one look for in a holiday? Maybe to see the beautiful scenery? Maybe to escape the hot/cold weather? Perhaps one wants to do a little shopping or maybe visit temples on a pilgrimage. Maybe one wants to see the country for what it is. What life is like in the holiday destination, an average day of an average person in another country. My intentions were simple, to see Japan as it is, rather than visiting sites catered for tourists, shops that sell merchandise, overly huge dinner areas with no menu or waiters, dinner areas that are catered for tour groups. I had no intention to see vast expanse of nothing. Don’t get me wrong, the scenery was beautiful, the snow-covered hilltops were breathtaking, but they were not worth sitting in a bus for 5 hours to see. Perhaps I should start on a new paragraph now, or risk giving the misunderstanding that I didn’t enjoy this trip.
This holiday made me realise many things. Most of them being how different this country is from Japan, and I’m not talking about scenery and all that jazz. Rather, I’m talking about the people and their attitudes. I shall not go into great detail or risk offending a lot of people. For one, you don’t see people sweeping the roads and/or picking up the rubbish, yet the streets remain perfectly clean. You don’t see spills or food that has accidentally fallen off and yes, people do stand on the left of the elevator. I’d go into greater detail, but like I said, I’m not going to risk offending anybody.
Besides general eye-opening, I now have an aim in life. No doubt this aim is very different from most, and it would probably be highly ridiculed, thus I shall refrain from mentioning this, perhaps until a later date. For once in my life there is something I want to be doing, a direction (albeit a little too general) I want to head. Maybe two years from now I can see if I did things the right way. In any case, I shall keep it short and end in here.
