Posts Tagged ‘Inspirational’

While waiting to get a massage yesterday at Guppi no Shitasu (a great shiatsu place here in Miyakojima), I was scanning through the various books in office book shelf. There were quite a few that interested me, but one caught my attention above all the others. A book titled やりたい事をやれ, It basically translates into “Do The Things You Want To Do”. I only read through the table of contents, but the point of the book was clear. Do the things you really want to do and you won’t have any regrets.

Like a lot of books, I wish I could have read this one much earlier in my life. It is so easy to get wrapped up in what we are expected to do that we forget what we really want to do. Life is short and precious. If you doubt this, ask anyone who is getting into there 40s or 50s or above. My grandfather used to tell me that his face changed so quick he didn’t recognize himself in the mirror any longer. The point being that we need to live in the moment and enjoy life as much as possible.

There is no formula or perfect road to life. I used to constantly worry about making mistakes, but one wrong turn doesn’t mean you can’t end up on the original path you had intended. In fact, sometimes the short detours will actually move you ahead further than would have gotten by staying on the normal path.

I rarely worry about the mistakes I have made. Some of them have actually turned out to be really great experiences. However, I do think from time to time about the things I didn’t do or the chances I didn’t take. Like the old saying goes, I don’t regret the mistakes I made, but only the things I didn’t do. So what dreams aren’t you following in your life?

I wrote the below post a while ago, but I finally found an internet connection and am able to post it. It has been about 4 days since we originally moved into the apartment and we absolutely love it. The dogs are quite, the view is great, and the ocean is close. Not to mention the rent is also cheap. We pretty much have it all cleaned and setup so it feels like our home. After living here for a week, it’s hard to believe I ever worried about leaving it all behind. If you haven’t read the first two posts you can find them here: Starting a New Life and Day 2 in Miyakojima: Finding an Apartment and Other Advice for Moving to a New Area. (The above picture is a 15 minute walk from our apartment).

Day 3 starts from here:

“After a full day of looking at apartments, we were unable to find anything as good as the one we found the first day with the dog. So we decided to go and look at it one more time and found it was even better than we thought. It had more storage space (not that we needed it for our 4 suitcases) and it was only a 15 minute walk from the ocean. It was also very quit, so hopefully we don’t hear the dog too much if it barks.

We were able to talk the apartment company into allowing us to move in the following Monday so that will allow us to save a few days of having to stay in a hotel. We were especially eager to get out of the guest house. It was the worst place I have ever stayed. Not only were the rooms not clean, but we had to go outside to use the shower and bathroom. It felt kind of like expensive camping.

Tomorrow we will be moving to a new location and getting a new rental car.”

PS. We found a rental car for a month at a great price and have even got recommendations for places to find a cheap used car.

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