I want to live in Osaka
Maybe it seems emo but I'm gonna write my feelings about this for posterity, but just here so I'm not broadcasting it all over the Internet and just for my friends. I'm on the bus leaving here and watching the city go by... Oh it just reignites this burning desire in me. In my heart I have this longing everyday, wether or not I consciously think about it. Ever since I left this place I've wanted with everything in me to come back.
I love Osaka. I love this city.
That's all there is to it, and I'm not sure another place will ever be good enough (in Japan anyway). I love it's vibrance and it's bustle, but I love it's earthy and friendly quality too. It's not that I hate Izumo, quite the opposite, it's just that it never will be Osaka and it's not close enough to satisfy this longing. These little bouts and spurts afforded by these weekend trips are just not enough. I miss the food, I miss the sights, I miss the dialect, god I miss it all. Oh so much.
How am I to get over you Osaka? I get off the bus here and take a deep breath and it still feels like home. I've never felt like this about a place before, except maybe my hometown, but I don't spend so much time longing for there with every fiber of my being. I don't wanna sound ungrateful for what I have, I do love my students and I am truly found of Izumo, but it just feels like I've already found the place that I'm meant to be, and I'm just waiting to get back there. And I need to find some way to do it, because I don't know if I'll ever be ready to go back to America and start the rest of my life till I do. It would feel like unfinished business.
I'm not done with you yet Osaka, wait for me!
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