Quarantine Day 12
To be completely honest, I was enjoying my isolation and wished I could stay meditating, reading books and doing yoga in a hotel room for a few more weeks. Red leaves season? Oh, too bad I can't get out and hunt for a good photo around some popular temple in Kyoto only to mindlessly snap pictures that my IG audience is expecting from me. It's so liberating to not be affected by the flow of time, external information and expectations. But today I realized I am but a mere human — I miss socializing and I would give up my iso-zen anytime now for a dinner with a friend. Two days to go.
To be completely honest, I was enjoying my isolation and wished I could stay meditating, reading books and doing yoga in a hotel room for a few more weeks. Red leaves season? Oh, too bad I can't get out and hunt for a good photo around some popular temple in Kyoto only to mindlessly snap pictures that my IG audience is expecting from me. It's so liberating to not be affected by the flow of time, external information and expectations. But today I realized I am but a mere human — I miss socializing and I would give up my iso-zen anytime now for a dinner with a friend. Two days to go.
Quarantine Day 13
Found an interesting sight today: a mountain of decorations from the previous Japanese New Year celebration was piled up next to a shrine. What a spiritual mess.
Found an interesting sight today: a mountain of decorations from the previous Japanese New Year celebration was piled up next to a shrine. What a spiritual mess.
Quarantine Day 14
It’s the last day so I finally gathered all my courage and went to the local red-light district again to take pics of the facades. The doormen were extremely scary: some of them almost approached me but when they saw that I was taking pictures only of the top of the buildings and mostly ignored the entrances, they calmed down and turned away. I tried to behave as touristy and naive as possible but it’s still pretty dangerous to do something like that (rich clients can get very nervous), so please don’t try to repeat this…
It’s the last day so I finally gathered all my courage and went to the local red-light district again to take pics of the facades. The doormen were extremely scary: some of them almost approached me but when they saw that I was taking pictures only of the top of the buildings and mostly ignored the entrances, they calmed down and turned away. I tried to behave as touristy and naive as possible but it’s still pretty dangerous to do something like that (rich clients can get very nervous), so please don’t try to repeat this…