Kudos

I'm reading a book called "Drive", by Daniel H. Pink. The book is making me realize about a lot of things. The book talks about things I have felt for a long time, but had never read nor think about it. This might sound pretentious or something, but each time I "realize" something and can associate it to myself that I get a little amazed by the finding and gain a little of self respect ("well, Carolina, not bad, not bad"), but at the same time I scold myself for only realizing, or being in the process of realizing all this, only now.

And my friend left Kyoto today at lunch. I met him at the station, we had lunch and he left. I'm back to the outer apathetic life. It was good having a friend again in Japan. It's been a long time. I felt I was a person again. It's amazing how having friends can drastically reduce your social media time.

Not going to lie, I was a bit tired, it was 3 days spent basically walking and inside the bus/train. I had fun with people for the first time in a long time. But better than that I could have more deep conversations. Now I'm back to silence. I can't use Skype for this kind of talk. I like to talk with people physically in front of me, replying and making facial expressions, gestures etc, I simply don't have that here.

I miss having "that" friend, who you see everyday. Talk to everyday. Can count on everyday.
I realized that we Portuguese are very happy and strong by nature, we laugh a lot. I compared our behavior with the behavior I had with other Portuguese friends when I went to China and our behavior there in February this year. And when two other friends came to Japan in July this year. Compared to the Japanese and the Chinese at least, we Portuguese are very energetic.

 Cya!