Dokkodo: Lonesome Road of Running

The second thing I appreciate next to the fact that I live here in this world is that I have two legs to walk or run.  Shoes, sandal or One-Tooth Geta, it doesn’t matter what footwear I wear.  I am impressed or moved and so grateful that I am able to stand on the ground on my own two legs.  

How nice it is to travel! Travel might be shedding your-old-self or graduation from your-past-self. I travel because I love people. I like time to meet people I have never known in some towns I have never visited. I find myself in a scene unusual to me and suddenly I notice I have become a part of the scene. And in such a scene I find myself enjoying another myself. It’s nice to have a time to see my-inner-self and to have a talk with another me. Because I can see clearly my-true-self who has been unknown to me. No matter what happens, I never haste, I never panic and I stay cool. I’d like to appreciate the time when my mind stays slow and mellow.

It’s been almost one month since I came back from New Zealand. I often long for various scenes looking at many photographs which I took in New Zealand. Mountains, sea, rivers, waterfalls and lakes, plateau, meadows… There was a lot of wonderful scenery which makes me feel like coming back again some day. It is a special privilege of the travelers that many impressions are provided in great mother nature. The reward from the nature is something special simply because I visited with two legs of my own. New Zealand seems to be called a treasure box of the earth. What I did out there would be an act to open the cover of such a treasure box quietly. I’ll have another chance to open the cover of the closed treasure box again some day in the future. I may have different impressions from what I had at that time.