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Soreness

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  I have been having some very strange things happening to me over the past year since I began this journey to get to Japan. It really seems to have stricken something visceral in me. I have been reticent about it. I wanted to be sure that I'm not just drunk off of the excitement of a new obsession and passion. I don't want to give off the impression that I'm experiencing some kind of psychosis or appear as someone who is so bored in life that they make up some wild story to escape from their unbearably mundane reality. None of that is true. My life really is not boring. I finally see the signs that it is happening fast now. Things are finally happening now and I have a solid plan. It just feels like it has been waiting for me my whole life. It was only a matter of time. There is a connection - it can be both spiritual and the possibility of having some Japanese in my blood somewhere down the line. It has been ambiguous. Regardless, there has been a connection, something ha...

Evolving

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  I should make this the first post of this blog. It is amazing how some of us change. We are still the same person inside, but we become wiser. I'm a very different person today than I was 5 years ago. I may have missed California and thought it was more beautiful and had a lot more excitement compared to Tennessee, but it is a good thing I'm not there now. It seems like the environment was corrupting me in a way. I remember being extremely frustrated and depressed after a while because I didn't know what to do with my life and felt like I was getting nowhere. I was also realizing that California was not really living up to its reputation of having earthquakes all the time(at least ones that get everybody's attention). Experts were warning that southern California was overdue for a major earthquake and so I felt compelled to be there. I came there with the dream of successfully warning people before a major earthquake and that getting me somewhere. I dreamed of a life ...