This Experience Was Priceless

I went to Japan over the summers.  If I were to ever make a list of my top 10 best memories, 8 of them would be the ones that I made during this trip, which is why it wouldn’t be fair to not write a blog post about it.

Japan is an interesting place. It has amazing transportation service, good food, and fun places to visit like Dog and Cat cafes. Most people in Japan don’t know English so it’s funny to communicate with them. However, for some reason that too adds to the experience of living in a foreign country. But the best thing about Japan was Dhanisha.

It doesn’t matter where you go, it matters who you go with and I was lucky enough to have the company of my two best friends.   The first thing that pops in my head when I hear about 3 friends going somewhere is the movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Even though our trip didn’t involve scuba diving or sky diving, it was equally fun.

You know when you’re in the company of good people; you thrive to be a better person yourself. You want to be a better person so you can offer that goodness to others. At so many points in the trip I just admired how my friends are and wanted to be a better person myself so I can give back the happiness, the respect, the laughter that they kept giving.

When you have 20 days with the your close friends, you end up talking about things that you otherwise wouldn’t. For example, our fears, everyone has but most of us are in denial of them. We do not want to share or talk about our fears because they are vulnerable subjects. But when you finally talk about it, it frees you. I fear being a negative person. To make this more precise, I feel like I always put people down. Many things that I say I feel like I make others feel inferior and make myself look superior. I don’t intentionally want to make anyone feel like that, but yet everything I say speaks otherwise. Sharing this problem did two things:

)         1)Made me accept I have a problem

       2)Work towards changing it

 Most of the people in Japan travel in trains. Trains are very convenient there, it goes to every place. And the stations are so quiet. People don’t make a lot of noise. In fact, there is hardly any chatter in the trains too.

The days we would come back late home, we would stop at a Family Mart and I would buy these amazing noodles. I am sure they are the reason why I have gained three and a half kgs of weight. In the night when it gets chilly, I would be eating noodles with chopsticks that I don’t know how to use and catching up on speed with Dhanisha and Khushboo. Those noodles were made by God himself.

The longer I stayed in this place, the fonder I grew of it. I would love to wake up next to my friends. Everyday was a new day to do something crazy.

Ill be forever grateful for this, to my parents for giving me the best birthday gift, to Dhanisha’s parents and to Khushboo and Dhanisha. This experience was priceless.