Lighting

You ever have those moments in life that you think are insignificant while they are happening, but they get burned into your memory and you can never forget that snapshot in your life? Maybe some of you know what I'm talking about, maybe most of you don't. But I have these "checkpoints" of a sort from time to time, and I just had this beautiful one. This was back in my first semester in Japan, and I was biking home when I stop in the 7-11 to get something, and when I walk out I see Ronan standing outside. The night sky gave us the backdrop, and the 7-11 provided the dramatic white lighting, our outlines catch the light pouring out of the glass windows of the konbini, and there we are, an irish and an american, our cultural/national/self identities stripped by this raw moment, and for those 5 minutes that we stop and talk, we are but two lost agendas trying to find ourselves in Japan. Insignificant enough for me to remember, insignificant enough for me to make more sense of my year.