::ponder::

second year, even though japan seems.to be so far away from you now but you guess you will forever remember today.

two years ago while you were busy enjoying your short term expat life in the ever busy enchanting tokyo, the quake woke you up shockingly. perhaps the constant shaking and moving of the ground had tormented you. perhaps the scenes from the television and broadcast of tohoku's tsunami has frightened you.  in short, you woke up from your spiritual slumber, realize the urgency and acknowledge the in great remorse and mourning throughout the evacuation, "stranded" in lowland period.

during that period, you learnt about your greatest calling, you learnt about intercession, praying unconditionally for people of japan, urging to return to tokyo to finish what you have started despite of many situations of uncertainty. you remember spending sleepless nights weeping, or woke up by the scenes of waves and people swept away by the tsunami in the middle of the night. you sometime imagine the earth was shaking in lowland.
 
then it's the time to return, you remember you boarded to an almost empty flight bound for narita. you remember how somber  dimmed and uninteresting tokyo was when you reach the city center after the earthquake. life was never be the same again for many japanese, life has changed as well even for you.

and two years later, on this day, japan is indeed very far away distance wise, yet some memories of your time in japan will last for a very long time.

today, writing this thought while you're on your weekly travel to london,  you know this is where you are now, life in europe, doing the similar day job with another company for another financial client, in the financial district. instead of tokyo, the scene continues in london.

today you just want to pray for japan, for many who survived and live on, for a country that able to stand up quickly and recovered, and most important for many souls that went missing, lives that were lost and the hardships that the survivors have to endure post tsunami.
if you were to choose again, you never regret a day for such awakening experience if this natural disaster is unavoidable.