Beauty

My very first post on this journal was about the beauty of the Japanese landscape. Below is the picture that I wrote about:

At the time I was very entranced with the beauty of some everyday objects in Japan such as this river and other such places. However, after taking a few classes here a Kansai Gaidai it soon become very obvious that many other people before me were entranced by the same thing and to me in many of their writings, it seemed very obvious that they did not appreciate the Japanese people themselves. And so I began to try to look less at the Japanese beauty and more at the Japanese people themselves. So I began to go to the places where normal Japanese people go, like malls, and restaurants. However, no matter what I did I could not find away to be drawn away from the Japanese beauty, like in the picture below:

I think that after several months living here in Japan I have finally been able to find a good balance between the two. For me I have discovered that the answer as to whether the real Japan is the beautiful place that usually exists only in foreigners dreams or the modern world full of malls and fast pasted restaurants lies in both. Japan is both of these worlds and for most Japanese people they are able to live and see both, it is just foreigners who at first I think can not see both of these worlds can live side by side with each other.