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Things that I marvel at
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I had a meeting today and afterwards on my way home I got a little lost. I ended up at an old Japanese shrine.
The petals from the cherry blossoms were falling like snow and for a moment I felt like I could have been there 1000 years ago.
I was actually so overwhelmed by the beauty of the moment, I kinda got misty eyed. To be in this country, to have these opportunities to see things that most people on the planet never will....it was just so humbled and grateful. I felt like the kid in American Beauty where he says there's so much beauty in the world he can't stand it.
What a wonderful moment.
The petals from the cherry blossoms were falling like snow and for a moment I felt like I could have been there 1000 years ago.
I was actually so overwhelmed by the beauty of the moment, I kinda got misty eyed. To be in this country, to have these opportunities to see things that most people on the planet never will....it was just so humbled and grateful. I felt like the kid in American Beauty where he says there's so much beauty in the world he can't stand it.
What a wonderful moment.
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Maybe he means the Marine father.
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This is the sort of thing I'd love to see if I ever visited Japan, not so much the usual nerd-tourist things like Akihabara. Never fail to be impressed at how well they seem to juggle modernity and heritage over there.
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Sounds like a lot of you could use a good cry. Maybe go to a nice safe space with a lot of pillows and ambient music and candles and just let it out, you know?
But for real, Japan is awesome and its reputation as a completely unique country is totally earned. I've been here so long it's easy to get jaded about things and just get annoyed at long lines and places being crowded and endless bureaucracy, but every now and then I have what I call my "holy **** I'm in Japan!" moments like I did at that shrine yesterday and it reminds me of how lucky I am to live here as a foreigner.
If you're a member of this board, you'd certainly find something in Japan that will amaze you, so I'd encourage everything to try to make here at least once to experience it in person.
But for real, Japan is awesome and its reputation as a completely unique country is totally earned. I've been here so long it's easy to get jaded about things and just get annoyed at long lines and places being crowded and endless bureaucracy, but every now and then I have what I call my "holy **** I'm in Japan!" moments like I did at that shrine yesterday and it reminds me of how lucky I am to live here as a foreigner.
If you're a member of this board, you'd certainly find something in Japan that will amaze you, so I'd encourage everything to try to make here at least once to experience it in person.
All I'm sayin' is that in your post you quote a movie scene where a guy is in awe of how beautiful and majestic a street plastic bag is. I dunno if that was intentional misuse or not but nevertheless the point is that you can find beauty around you if you want to and there's no need to travel across the world for it. 
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Yeah, it was a bad analogy. I always thought that kid was was a total creep-o and indeed, the trash bag blowing in the wind WAS just some stupid trash blowing in the wind. In fact, it was windy here today and I saw all kinds of crap floating around.
But my point was supposed to be that I had a "moment" and I wanted to share it, but after writing it out I felt kind of like a pretentious doucher like the American Beauty guy. But regardless, it's how I felt in the moment, and of course you can feel that way anywhere at anytime when you see something that just strikes you like that. For me, it just happens most often here in Japan because it's such a unique country that's history is just so completely different from where I grew up.
But hey. Sometimes I just sit and stare at my toy shelf. Or flip through my favorite art books. Thankfully I don't always cry at such things, but like the thread title says, sometimes I find amazing beauty in the things around me and I ****ing marvel at it.
Sometimes it's an old Japanese temple, sometimes it's a hundred year old painting, and sometimes it's the way the sunlight hits just the right way to make an amazing shadow off a naked chick's perky nips.
But my point was supposed to be that I had a "moment" and I wanted to share it, but after writing it out I felt kind of like a pretentious doucher like the American Beauty guy. But regardless, it's how I felt in the moment, and of course you can feel that way anywhere at anytime when you see something that just strikes you like that. For me, it just happens most often here in Japan because it's such a unique country that's history is just so completely different from where I grew up.
But hey. Sometimes I just sit and stare at my toy shelf. Or flip through my favorite art books. Thankfully I don't always cry at such things, but like the thread title says, sometimes I find amazing beauty in the things around me and I ****ing marvel at it.
Sometimes it's an old Japanese temple, sometimes it's a hundred year old painting, and sometimes it's the way the sunlight hits just the right way to make an amazing shadow off a naked chick's perky nips.
Not a joke, a lot of foreigners have a lot of trouble with how distant and closed up japanese culture is and how cold the culture can be apparently. How forigners are not really accepted according to them
Seems to be a common thing, theres hundreds of results. Foreigners can feel like crap i guess
Seems to be a common thing, theres hundreds of results. Foreigners can feel like crap i guess
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