exaltation of together
The big summit of your 20s is learning how to be alone. I could write you a list of the events and meals and quiet moments that I skipped in my fear of loneliness, or I could just tell you this. I...
-- Don’t get me wrong; Oita was a magical time. I spent two whole hours in the Miffy Bakery gift shop, tracing my hands over the cute ceramics and plushies in a very non-COVID safe way. I bothered families on vacation and used my mangled Japanese to form an amalgamation of words that translates to something like, “Take a picture. Is it okay?” complemented with a gesture to use my phone. I used the self-timer function for hours in the Showa Museum (think post-WWII retro Japan) and decided that the Showa era is undoubtedly the best era of Japanese design. I locked the keys to my suitcase…
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