Japan thoughts (not a book review)

How the start of self-improvement and six months of work ended in feeling peaceful but not for the reason you think.

Picture this: Six months before this trip, my friends wanted to go to Japan, and I was so focused on my previous job that I lost all my health— 23-year-old barely able to move 2 miles.

Thanks to this trip, I trained for six months, and the result was that I was able to walk 20+ miles per day. But somehow, before my trip, I was working countless hours at my job while feeling stressed about job performance. At the same time, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, but somehow, I was nervous about a bug at my job at the time of my flight—not my mom's cancer, a bug… yes, at that level of stress I was dealing with where somehow my mom's cancer is SECOND-in Life? WHAT?!

So here are my thoughts in Spanish (written in the flight back):

Japón, otro país de contrastes, revela las marcadas diferencias de riqueza. En sus calles bulliciosas, algunos quedan atrapados en el ajetreo nocturno de la línea de Hokkaido, mientras que otros, despreocupados, disfrutan en el bar Ce La Vi de Shibuya un miércoles por la noche. Es una ciudad donde se entremezclan el deseo y figuras sombrías, pero también una ciudad donde la tecnología parece haberse detenido, yuxtaponiendo la Torre de Tokio con antiguos templos.

En mi búsqueda de iluminación y fortaleza, descubrí algo inesperado: el verdadero 'ikigai' no consiste en seguir un camino preestablecido hacia la felicidad. Se trata de abrazar lo que ya ha demostrado traerte alegría. Mientras mis amigos se deleitaban en lo familiar de McDonald's, yo encontré placer en saborear takoyaki.

Puede que no sean la religión, el amor o la amistad lo que resuene contigo. Busca lo que realmente te cumple y abrázalo completamente. En un mundo donde la tecnología ha alcanzado su cénit, esta narrativa muestra la coexistencia de estos elementos diversos

arigato gozaimasu Japan

At the end, when I came back, my mother was able to get surgery, the bug somehow got self-resolved, and I didn't do anything about the two things that kept me somehow worried and feeling bad…

So truth be told, problems are truly your imagination. Just try doing the best work when you can every day