waiting for a train

Time has flown by once again.  Life seems to be a collection of events.  Imagine the movie Click (you know, the one with Adam Sandler).  He only lived in the moments that he wanted to and fast forward the parts that seemed uninteresting to him.  I feel, in a sense, that's how I live my life.  Every so often there are good events and moments that come along, and everything in between is just treated as filler.  Maybe we all tend to live life like such.  We countdown towards something important and are too distracted by looking forward to the future, that we don't live in the moment.  I suppose it's fitting that my school's English Course motto is "seize the day".  carpe diem.  But can we really live life that way?  There are some days at work where I have no schedule.  I try my best to occupy the time with meaningful activities or tasks, but at the end of the day, it seems and feels as though it has just been wasted.  Perhaps that's my fault for having a lack of discipline, but either way, a balance needs to be found between carpe diem and letting time go.

So now that my thoughts have effectively come and gone, I can reflect on past events of interest.

Hakata Dontaku.  A festival.  A parade.

I went to another Hawks game.  They won.  They opened the dome.

A rainy day.  Owl cafe.  Dazaifu.  Family meet-up.  Karaoke.  EAP.

Tagawa Jinkosai.  Not to say that my previous moments have been unimportant or lesser.  But I can say that Jinkosai has been so far, one of my better moments in Japan thus far.  It was the first time where I felt as though I was experiencing a tradition that was important to its own people.  To see the excitement, fun, impressive floats is something that I will remember.