Patience
Something struck me as I was taking a shower last night. My current situation in Japan is a test of patience. I am not the most patient person in the world and I do view it as a weakness of mine. The situation with living in Japan and dealing with language and other issues is the perfect training. Of course like kids on a car journey, I think that I am always nearing the end of my patience, and I ask “Are we there yet?”, “How about now, are we almost there yet?” The only difference is that I am the driver and it would be easy for me to just stop the car and declare that the journey had ended (that my objectives had been reached). But I think to be satisfied I need to be on the road until at least mid-2004 and that would be no means the end of my journey just the second stage.
