I just got back from a week’s trip to Japan, exploring in particular Izu which is located in Shizuoka. It was the first trip for pleasure since the sky was open so my friend and I carried quite a number of gifts for our Japanese friends (we participated in the ship for Southeast Asian Youth almost 38 years ago). This is simply to let you know that we two each had heavy luggage (20/16 kilos) and I also had my carry-on plus my handbag ka.
Yes! Yes! One of the very first lessons learned was that we could have stayed in Tokyo for one night to leave the heavy stuff there.
In any case, had we done that, we wouldn’t have had this learning experience ka. This was from our Japanese friend who joined us to Izu.
We two Thais managed luggage quite well with our eyes open for an elevator. However, when we and our Japanese friend left Izu to go to Hakone, we had to change from a local train to another for the destination.
The local one stopped on platform 1 while the other was on platform 5 on another level. The challenge was that we had only 4 minutes to catch the second one. To me, since the following train would come 17 minutes later, I’d have chosen to go slower. What about you ka?
My Japanese friend started planning to take the best coach of the train that would let us get off as close as possible to an elevator for platform 5. She said, ‘I have to be successful.’ Having heard it, I said to myself to go along and hope it could work out for her as wished.
Even one disabled waiting for the elevator, we managed to go up with him and then ran fast to the train. Picture me running with two full hands kaa!
It was almost a miss but we beat this 4-minute challenge kaa! Whew!
Although it could be regarded as anecdotal (asked another Japanese friend to find they value success highly too!), this experience gave me another cross-cultural understanding. It’s not just the sharp sense of being successful and continuous success (big or small), but their perception about planning ahead, use of time as well ka. They feel they must save up some good minutes to do other things!
What comes to your mind about this story ka?
While I was thinking about this 4-minute experience, I pictured myself panting in the second train kaaa!
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