San Francisco / Bay Area

This place is great.

Diversity adds life to a society.

There is a whole lot of diversity here and it fills my heart with joy when I see all kinds of people from different places getting along harmoniously.

I love riding the Bay Area Rapid Transit. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the diversity seems to bring about the feeling that everyone in the train is part of one family. Also counter-intuitively, it didn't feel that way on Japanese trains (the constant staring that I invoked did not do much to evoke the feeling of family, nor did the extreme silence of the passengers)...

I still don't have my own place yet and therefore haven't had the time or space to write very much. That's ok though. Transitions require attention. And there is so much here that requires my attention (and that I desire to be attentive to).

Still I think of the place where I could've gone (ny) and that makes me long to see those people and be on those streets. But SF has so much to offer. Perhaps I just need to buy a plane ticket to go and calm my friendly cravings.