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August 4th, 2011
I have to keep reminding myself to smile at people and say hello. Whenever I run into a stranger on the street it goes like, Reaction 1: natural impulse to smile, Reaction 2: chiding gut reaction to fight impulse after two years of greeting rejections and people avoiding me as a foreigner, and finally Reaction 3: remembering I'm not in Japan anymore and forcing myself to go with the first instinct haha
Gotta fight some of that Japanese conditioning. It's really nice to be able to go with my guts again without second guessing.
Gotta fight some of that Japanese conditioning. It's really nice to be able to go with my guts again without second guessing.