Life has changed so much.

I no longer live in a small house with tatami mats. I no longer go in the morning to hang out with pre-school kids and make them jump up and down. I no longer drive through kilometers of countryside as the sun goes down.

For a few more days I am on this island in the middle of the pacific. Then I will be thrusted over to the other side of the pacific, in an entirely different reality yet again.

It is hard not to think back with pangs of nostalgia, from time to time. Yet, it is not that simple; it is not as if I want to be there still....

It's changed so completely, so quickly. Like waking up from a dream. Everything vanishes and yet there are tidbits of what had happened while you were sleeping that flash in your head. Disconnected bits of faded colors. And yet they were real.