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It’s okay to be tired
I remember when I was traveling Iceland over New Year and on my last day of my short trip I went into this souvenir shop to get some last small presents for me and my family.
I grabbed the usual things a tourist would buy and proceeded to the cashier where a young woman with really tired eyes and messy hair was staring at her phone. She was probably a student. Looking younger and at the same time older than me. She didn’t realize that I wanted to pay and I was too shy to say anything.
Years of living in Japan have made me behave awkward around bad service. I don’t know how to handle it anymore, it’s like forgetting a foreign language you once have learned.
The girl finally realizes me and she sighs while scanning the souvenirs I intended to buy.
“It has been a long day!” she said and me, still a bit awkward in finding a good answer said
“I can imagine.”
But that was actually a lie. I couldn’t imagine. I finally had a three day vacation after a long year of working as a nursery teacher in Tokyo and the last three days I just spend with eating really good food, diving into a new culture I was just starting to like and fall in love with. I came back from an amazing day trip around the Golden Circle while seeing beautiful sunrises and waterfalls, and in the evening relaxing with…