A month back home did not feel like enough time, especially because I had not met my family and friends for almost two and a half years. On top of that, there was the incident at Paris where I lost my passport. I had to reapply for my passport, the visa for Japan and the United States. Quite frankly, I thought a month was not enough time to get all of these but quite surprisingly, I had them all by the time I left.<\/p>\n
So home. Yeah. The word has a different meaning to me now. Having lived for a long time in the United States and then Germany for a few months, the people that I love and the people that care about me changed. I always run into problems filling out forms that asks me about my \u201caddress\u201d. I have many so I have none I guess. Nevertheless, family is something magical. I could scream at them, be angry with them, be persistent and annoying but still expect their love in the end. Do not get me wrong. I love them to the bottom of my heart, but I really missed having someone like that for a very long time. Going back home and seeing that my grand mom, dad and mom are growing older was the hardest thing I had to deal with. The unforgiving unidirectional time is something I wish I can reverse. Even though I know I am trying to make the best out of the opportunities I get, me not being present at hard times for my family is something that eats me from the inside. I cannot relate, even if I try, to what they had to go through when the earthquake happened, when my \u201cbig dad\u201d died, when my dad was diagnosed of bronchitis\u2026<\/p>\n
Okay enough depressing stuff. Home is awesome and so is momo. The closest thing to describe momo is dumpling but believe me, calling momo a dumpling is a sin. There was not a day spent without me devouring at least 2 plates of this culinary masterpiece that my ethnicity has so masterfully perfected. My mom\u2019s food is not to be taken lightly as well and my dad\u2019s, I cannot even begin to describe how my salivary glands go haywire just with the smell.<\/p>\n
I am not sure if and when I will be back home to experience this again. The all so perfect trajectory of life that I have planned has an Achilles heel. Senescence. I wish I could stop you and time, your dear best friend, but trust me, I will be living everyday as it is the best day of my life and make the most out of everything, but please slow down a bit as there are people I need to share my happiness and success with, take them to places and have them experience a part of what I have experienced in the past few years.<\/p>\n
As my journey in Japan is about to start, these feelings that are buried deep inside me, I will not let these take me down but take these as a motivation to do the best I can, be the best I can and make the people I love and care happy. This is the least I can do for them at a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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