The rising moon to my lost heart

by Dana LEE (Japan)

I didn't expect to find Japan

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The Rising Moon to My lost Heart The word "love" that I have said, I mean to give to you and encourage myself to say it for the first time and probably the last time in my life. Love for me is also to see that person happy even with or without me. I can be happy or unhappy, but the memory of this love will last in my head forever. This is a memory of falling in love with someone who I have known just only a week. A guy from Yokohama just made my last summer of Heisei which was my 2nd solo travel become a beautiful love story. Coming to Japan is to keep a promise to myself and also to meet someone I had a crush on for 7 years. My first day in Japan was amazing with the early beautiful sunrise that I see while landing. Going around Tokyo, I was impressed by how clean and nature it is, even in a very modern city. I was told by my Japanese friend that the view is not different from my country during the summer because everything is green now. Even so, the way people organize the street, infrastructure, and nature view is wonderful. Let's begin my story with the opening ceremony of my summer program in Shibuya. I started to make many friends with my history knowledge of their countries. Suddenly, one guy came to join our conversation and we start talking about the history of our countries until the end of the ceremony. He was so impressed by his knowledge of history and world affairs, who I rarely find someone to interact closely like that. Is it fate that we were assigned to stay at the same place? However, my heart that time was blind by the heart of waiting which I had no place to put anyone else. A few days later, it was scheduled to meet someone who I had waited for many years. As life is much unexpected, everything may not go as I plan. I did not know what reason that we could not meet, but one thing I know is that I was not prioritized enough for that person. I was so down that everything in my heart could be expressed on my face. We had a good time of school trip to Chiba, but my heart did not go with the flow of happiness at all. It seems to me that he can feel how much I was so emotional? My new friend tried to make my emotions come back to normal like who I used to be. It was something hard that I appreciate a lot. Walking together along the beach to see a million stars surrounding the rising moon, I can feel how gentle he was. Many topics were brought into the engaging discussion between us makes me forget to care about anything else. That was the time that I realized that he is the rising moon to my lost heart, a heart that is lost because of an undefined love. My heart is like a breaking mirror which I cannot repair it into one again. Despite that, the reflection of the moonlight in the mirror helps me to discover my value which could not be taken by anyone. Day by day, we started to interact more closely as he becomes my free tour guide to everywhere in Tokyo. It could be my rule not to say “goodbye” to anyone I want to meet again. See you again was the last word I said to him during the farewell party. I asked myself why everything in Japan is just going to end like this because I have no intention to end the story this way. Two hours before departure, I got an unexpected visit from someone who came all the way from Yokohama to see me off in Chiba. Narita airport is one of the world busiest airports which I found it is hard for two people to run into each other without phone contact. I didn't expect to meet the bright rising moon after my heartbreaking story, but destiny makes everything for us.