Taking Tokyo has seen better days. I’m currently at home recovering from a head injury, in America. If you’ve been following the blog here at Taking Tokyo, you’ll know that as of my last post, I was scheduled to leave for Tokyo, Japan via airplane on March 3rd. Well… that didn’t really happen. The last…
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10 Change-Inducing “What Ifs” (Your Secret Superpower)
Everyone has a secret superpower. When I first started exploring the idea of going to Japan, I had all kinds of doubts and worries. They turned into destructive, negative “what if?” thoughts. (If you haven’t gotten the 411 on “what if?” questions, you should check out how I walked myself out of a minefield just…
Creating Adventure: Relationships
Thinking about a lot that has happened over the past year, I’m convinced that most of it occurred thanks to a particularly bad relationship I was in at the time. It was abusive on many levels. I don’t like talking about it because I feel threatened talking about it. It ended abruptly when my partner…
How is a Human Like a Caterpillar? (the Life Cycle of Progress)
A few years ago, I was in a very bad place. I was too afraid to kill myself because I knew it would be painful. I was a starving caterpillar. How is a Human Like a Caterpillar? This is a puzzling riddle, to be sure. How on Earth is a human, as advanced a society…
Vision Quest: Transformative Goal-Setting (Title Pending)
For the past week, I’ve been flitting about between depression and rampant excitement. Depression is easy enough by itself to come by–all you need to experience it is a sense of hopelessness. They practically give those away. Excitement, on the other hand, is a little more difficult to work up to. However, it was something…
My Epic Tale of Transformation (or Kicking Fear in the Asscheek and Getting Shit Done)
Subtitle: (OR Inserting My Reality, Fuck Yeah) Many years ago, I had a dream to travel abroad to Japan on a plane filled with friends. Now it’s four months until the trip takes place, and I’m freaking the fuck out. How the hell did I get here? Naturally, it started with a big dream….
Dealing with The Hump
So, in my last post I talked about “the hump” and how difficult it can be to realize that you’re stuck at it. I also shared some techniques for getting past it. Now that I’ve realized that I’m at the hump, though, it’s become even harder. I’ve gotten to the effective “hump of the hump:”…
The Invisible Hump
So I don’t know if any of you guys noticed (probably not unless you talked to me directly), but I’ve been right depressed the past few weeks with no idea why. I’d been searching and searching for the answer, trying to find it in some tangible form. I found apathy instead. So I escapism-ed my…
The Riddle of Excitement, Part 5[FINAL]: Making Transformative Goals (or Choosing a Better Reality)
This is it–the finale! I’m sure (and certainly hoping) that the last four posts in this series have helped you get a hold on how exactly you can be happy without being too attached to your material conditions (health, wealth, etc.). We’ve talked about how life can go quickly from shitty to awesome. We’ve talked…
The Riddle of Excitement, Part 4: Finding Your Excitement
Last time, we went over ways to prove that you’re able to take your life and your happiness into your own hands. One of my favorite ways was the movie analogy: movies don’t change your physical reality (wealth, health, etc.), but they can still affect you emotionally. That proves that emotions aren’t that closely tied…
