My Rebirth Part III

This all took me back in my head to the Narita Airport I had arrived at. It too was very ordered and structured with its facilities being very well laid out, which allowed the people to quickly get to their destination gates. The destination gates always staying at their original gate and not moving across the airport, making the flyer later to their departure gate which had happened to me numerous times in America. The public commodes being so overwhelmed with filth in America, yet these commodes in Japan were appearing to be some of the cleanest in the world. The Yokoso sign, meaning welcome, displaying very beautifully. All the shops reaching out with their great smells and fashionable senses at me. All the staff wearing uniform and being so welcoming. What about these features here that happened naturally which did not involve man?

To begin with the natural environment is a difficult place to start due to the many varieties that are present, but once again, here is an attempt to describe these natural phenomena’s. I cannot mention the natural environment of Japan and not mention the item that gives life to this natural environment; the sun. The sun rose around three each morning, which brought the entire natural environment into a much more visible view early each morning I observed. Once the sun rose, the mountains and hills were then very easy to see in about every direction I decided to look. These mountains one can see varies from some of the highest in the world, containing snowcaps and soaring into the skies, to smaller ones being full of the color green and vegetation. The mountains usually gave off a grey look at the base during midday but appeared more of a purplish tint during sunrise and sunset that was absolutely amazing to see firsthand. All I had remembered seeing in America was of the endless sight of the vast cornfields that were anything but beautiful to behold. There were not mountains with the sun beautifully gleaming on the mountains each day during sunrise and sunset, giving off this beautiful tint of color that I had never seen before where I lived. I only had the dull grey and brown fields to see, with the sun dehydrating this vegetation. I had the disgusting skies which gave off a tint that was nothing more than dark and gritty; lacking color and personality.This was in fact not even worthy of recognition. The soil of this volcanic island is another natural beauty that is a true gift. This soil is a very dark brown color, in which actually appears black at most times due to the great amounts of basaltic rocks present. The soil being so soft and moist, due to the humid climate, making this soil very pleasant in touch. The soil in America being of a rocky, rigid, dry shell, that was just something that you only noticed when it was stuck on the bottom of your shoes, or of when the scorching sun had dried up the grass in the summer and one had to be confronted with this ugly sight of mere dirt and rock. The smell of the ocean is another magnificent feature of the natural environment. This smell not being like that of the smell of the Atlantic from Florida, but of a different, indescribable smell that is not necessarily a treat or an obstacle to one’s sense of smell. The smell not being of a bitter, foul fishy one, but of the natural elements and minerals that compose the ocean itself. This smell includes sediments compacted on the ocean floor and beach, and of the sodium and water all combined into a single fragrance. This was a smell of freshness, yet I knew there was something else present that I never did pinpoint. The sakura tree, with its soft pink to white blossom, is also a gift that the natural environment gives to the people. This blossom being very short lived but much like that of life itself. I then felt this throbbing sensation from inside my body, and it was as if my heart was trying to beat.

To be continued...