Distance

It has been over 5 years since I have been to Tokyo.

On the way to California, we stopped by in Tokyo for couple days.

The relationship with Tokyo, that I think I have, is like bitter/sweet. I love Seoul because that was where I was born and where my family is. Yet, I identify myself with Tokyo more because I share more similarity than difference. All these memories are from Tokyo, and that made me who I am right now. I know where I am when I am in Tokyo. I went to the schools, I had my friends, and I lived there and I spoke the language. Yet, in the end, I had a huge identity crisis during college. It is all part of the life, I assume. I don’t know how I got over it. But I do know that there was always my friend, S.

When I lived in Japan, there was a tiny window in the kitchen which looked out Tokyo Tower. The Tokyo Tower that I remembered was from our tiny kitchen window and usually-my-mom-was-in-the –kitchen-cooking-something Tokyo Tower.

The last day in Tokyo, we stayed at a hotel near Ginza and it had a perfect view of Tokyo Tower. It looked different than I remembered.

It looked big, yet, far. It looked more like my dad than my mom.

The distance from Tokyo to LA is about 5,500 miles. If you can measure the personal distance from a person to a person, I wonder how far it would be. Would it ever get closer? Would it ever get closer.