Letters from Higo 📮🇯🇵

Dear Moon,

I leave for Japan in three days.

I’m writing this while my suitcase is half packed, and I keep walking around my room trying to figure out what I am missing, and then suddenly remembering something else.

Everyone has been asking if I am excited for what’s to come. I am. I truly am. It’s like standing on the edge of something big. It’s like waiting for something you can’t even imagine and have never seen before. I am excited, but it’s the kind that sits right next to being nervous.

By the end of this week my life will completely change. All the little things, will change. I don’t know how it’ll feel or how I will even find the courage for all the new introductions to an entire community of strangers. But I want to remember the way it all begins. The small moments that later will be forgotten.

So this is the first letter – it’s written in my bedroom that’s mine and known, while the roads feel like home, and while the moon outside is the one I’ve always known.

The next time I write, I will be on my way to somewhere new.

Ari