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Just the Way You Are

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During this Southwest trip, I got a message from nature, people and my experiences. The message is “Just the way you are”. I believe that God told me what am I to go into another world to make me happier. Through the history, the people there, and culture which have been passed down from our ancestors, I could realize many precious things and live happily.

First, we went to New Mexico and my surprising journey had already started on board the plane. I saw the amazing scenery which is like nothing else except blown desert and huge magnificent rock mountains; I could not say anything because of the amazing nature. I was so excited during my journey. I could get to Santa Fe and Albuquerque safely and there were many attractive adobe buildings in the earth color. In my daily life, I was surrounded by many tall buildings in the urban area and I thought it was cool because I was like in “fashionable town” instead of my country-side hometown. When I was little, I felt embarrassed to hate been in the country-side. I thought it was so cool to live in urban areas like Osaka or Tokyo. I was to go “outside” of the small village there was only nature. However, as I grow up I have realized “What is happiness?” It isn’t being fashionable in cool clothes with a lot of jewelry’s; it isn’t acting cool or pretty by changing my hair color. Nature tells us what beauty, the power to live, and how small my problems are. I and we are impressed by nature, it makes us happy. There is nothing, but nature gives us our lives. Recently, I felt tired of my busy life in Japan. Everybody looks “fashionable” so I must be like that. I must be “cool” to look “nice and pretty”. However, even if we are tired to be like that, it seems the same people are in similar popular clothes or have the same hair color. I want to be honest more like a child. When we were little, everybody could say their dreams. Everybody had original personalities, but we can forget that easily as we grow up. During this trip, every place I visited was very curious for me; I wanted to know everything such as the history, things related to their lives, and relationships between Japanese and Native American. I was like a child. Therefore, I think it’s the most important thing to live honestly. I would like to believe in my instinct when I got lost in my life. Just the way you are. I’ll put this word in my mind and keep trying to do everything I want even if it’s too difficult for me to make it. The sky is the limit!

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