Back to school....

Today was my first day of work in the new year. All of my fellow teachers where excited to see me and to hear about Christmas in Kentucky. Was it cold? How was your family? What did you eat? I guess it sounds pretty exotic to hear from the foreigner who traveled around the world and back just to see his friends and family for Christmas. If they only knew! My friends in Kentucky think it is so exotic that I fly home and back to Japan just the same!
I think I am prideful in the sense that I love to be on an adventure. I enjoy meeting people and telling them that I live in Japan. What? Why? What do you do there? I could never do that.... These responses to the fact that I live across the world only help feed my ego and my pride. Somehow I think that living in another country and being unique can make up for the fact that I am 27 and have yet to think about entering a career yet.
It is becoming more and more evident to me that I don't have it all figured out. The older I get and the more that time passes the more I realize that I am kinda just wandering through this old world of ours. I'm already getting out of touch with the new music of the day. I found myself listening to oldies and old CD's when I was home and turning off the radio. I wonder if one day soon I will utter those fateful words..."How can kids listen to this crap?" The world is forgetting about me, that is for sure.
Time ticks on. It hasn't stopped for anyone yet, so I guess it is silly to expect it to stop for me.
I wonder why we have the need to have it all figured out. Our parents didn't have it all figured out, and they did alright. When they got married they didn't know how they would make it and neither did their parents.
I guess in the end all we can do is find a girl that we can love and serve and fight for her. We can find something we love to do and do it just for the enjoyment. We can work hard and answer to no one but the voice in our heads when we sleep and God when we die.

So, here's to you faith. Here's to hoping it works out. Were gonna work at it for sure, but we could use a little help along the way. You'll know where to find me.