Thursday, November 8, 2012

Are dreams made to be broken?

Over the last couple of months I have grown to dislike my teaching job. It is not particularly the job itself, I just want change in my life. Last week, I had a chance to have an interview with a Japanese recruiting company. The company is located in Iidabashi and they are currently looking for a native English speaker in order to spread their network overseas. Thus, I was the perfect match for this company. However, after the interview I came to discover that maybe what I want and what I need are two different things. Just like the old saying says "be careful what you wish for", I always wanted to work for a Japanese company in Japan and I wanted to be considered a normal salary man. But after thinking about it this last week, I have decided that maybe that lifestyle is not for me. I am like a bird, I like to do what I want when I want.. maybe I have Peter Pan Syndrome. But if you work to live what do you get in the end.... Just like the famous Japanese Poet Matsuo Aida says "We all wait for our children to grow up, we wait to save money, we wait for our until we build a house, but death never waits for us."No matter what we achieve in life all of us will die eventually. I prefer to spend my life among good friends and family and have a mediocre job with time to enjoy my hobbies.