Etherealism 霊妙主義

I thought I should put something into writing again.

Did you know that I miss the sound of thunder?　

雷鳴をめちゃ聞きたいです。

No seriously, when it rains here it doesn’t pour it just soaks.. forever. I have only heard thunder once since being in Japan, and a real good downpour is rare too. They tend to have a kind of half baked rain that is just a step above drizzle. Meh.　Maybe because I said this it will start raining heavily more often. .

Japanese, or people sometimes have weird thought processes. I don’t know what you should call it but it’s something like “Picky” syndrome. Basically if it’s not quality you don’t want it. I can sort of understand it if it is limited to material things but if it stretches into the relationships realm it’s too much.

I can’t really explain it but I can give an example. Let’s say it’s your birthday and one of your friends says “Happy Birthday” to you. Another friend notices it and says “It’s your Birthday? Happy Birthday!” Is there anything wrong with that???? Apparently there is to some people. The qualitiy is lacking. It says to them you didn’t really remember which can be extrapolated to mean you don’t care about them.

To be honest I think this way of thought is too much. Regrettably it can be applied to about anything relationship-wise. I tend to prefer that my friend said “Happy Birthday” than that he thought it himself. If he did or didn’t remember on his own I don’t care, I simply prefer the action to have occurred in and of itself.

Chalk up another thing I miss. Driving. On the other hand I don’t even want to consider driving in Japan, the cars and roads are all too small, but the AC would be nice.

Japans’s too non-idealistic and lacking in principles to drive the country and America is the opposite idealistic, still relatively new and steeped in principle. To oversimplify it. America seeks to create waves while Japan seeks to go with the flow. The problem is both can misread the situation, accidently creating waves that cause more damage then good or following the "flow" into obstacles, like rocks/walls etc. Maybe..

Now to change topic abruptly. Rice fields. Recently I've been able to see a bird that looks like a heron hanging out on them. They just kind of stand there and don't move but they are pretty cool.
There was one day when I wished I had my camera. When I was going to school it was raining. The coupling of the fields and the puddles around had ripples that revealed the slow steady raindrops. That gave me real calming feeling. Then later on that day the weather calmed and the surfaces of the fields that had filled up with water acted like mirrors and showed a perfect reflection of their surroundings. I was really regretting not having my camera that day...