And Now a Post Close to Home

As much as anyone loves adventure, we often have to take pauses from our new life when sudden close to us has disappeared without out presence. When I came to Japan, I was fully aware that my grandfather was sick, but part of me wanted to hope that maybe, just maybe, everything would have been okay until I returned.


I'm too much of an optimist at times. Or perhaps I'm simply naive.

Either way, I came to Japan and hoped for the best. And when I came to Japan, I had hoped that maybe I'll be able to say goodbye. Or at the very least came at point in time when I was able to have adapted enough to cope on my own terms. But neither of those things have happened, my grandfather passed away and I'm alone in a computer lab sobbing over such a significant lost.

Me and my grandfather use to be so close too. As a young child, I would sneak out of bed and watch such cartoons as Secret Squirrel and and Atom Ant. Both of which still hold a special meaning to me, and even though as I grew older and we grew slightly apart, my grandfather was still an important person in my life.


There isn't much else I should, or could say, at this moment other than I loved my grandfather dearly, and he will be missed. However, as most challenges that that face my life, I still like to keep repeating one simple quote at the end of the day: "We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness."