Although a few already know, I have kept things a bit under the radar of late, so I guess this post is mostly for all those I haven't been able to catch up with properly in the last week.

To be completely blunt, shit well and truly hit the fan recently and the end result was me being forced to depart Japan on short notice, waving goodbye to Tokyo. For now at least. It's a very long story that I won't go into on here, but I hold no regrets. While sat on the flight back to blighty I got chatting to the woman who nabbed my row's window seat (who oddly enough, was reading a book called "New Beginnings") and it began to fully dawn on me how many incredible and eye opening experiences I've had during my time in Japan. I've literally billions of stories and although my move was cut short to a few months, the experiences I had in that time have genuinely shaped my outlook on the world and the sort of life I want to lead in it. I could fill this blog for years recounting all these experiences, but it seems a bit odd when I'm no longer living there. My storytelling will henceforth come at the price of a pint :P

Last night I was reminded of a well known quote:

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

This really is true - at least from my experience - and so while I've no real idea where i'll be or what i'll be up to in the future, I do know that bigger and better things lay ahead and I'll be making damn sure to see all the doors that open up for me along the way. Despite everything and in a strangely full circle way, just like I did back in August when I wrote the intro blurb at the top the of the page, I've no idea what to expect and yet hold a blind overriding self confidence that somehow, in some way, everything will work out awesome  : )






Laters x