CLARITY for me comes in rare yet riveting fits. Actually, they are not that rare, I probably have some sort of an epiphany about my life at least once a week. The more obtuse portion of my brain matter comes to the assumption that everyone struggles with constantly trying to reinvent themselves to only fall back into the, more often than not, self set standard.
I've been in Japan (in Iwakuni for that matter) for eighteen months now. You could say that I have really tested the waters of the world here so to speak. You could also say that goldfish are the distant and discarded cousin of the Great White, although doing so doesn't make either statement any more true. I suppose when it comes down to it, yes I have been in Japan for eighteen months, yes I have made a lot of memories, yes I believe my subconscious critic in the assumption that no one really gives a sh#% and wants to read this. Being surrounded by the military, I kind of have divided the "mainland" Americans (we are a diverse military now aren't we- play nice and share), that is those who's primary existence has been lived out in the states into two groups: the ones who get it, and the ones who don't. Oh well doesn't that sound arrogant? Maybe, but who cares right?
I don't even know what category I fall into, but in the Michael Douglas-Joel Schumacher sense of the word we are all falling right, so again it doesn't matter much. There are those that come here and walk out that gate realizing that this so enriched with culture place we reside in is truly a great opportunity to open your eyes to the possibilities of human creativity and the vast forms we can pose ourselves into, and then there are those that well... don't.
