Maybe this was because I had changed a lot in Japan...

Maybe this was because I had changed a lot in Japan, or maybe it was because I had learned that being socially acceptable and popular wasnt important because the people that are making those judgements are not always morally correct. I didnt really care who was my friend and who wasnt anymore, but I did care that I was true to myself and refused to change to suit other people. I felt like I had found who I really was by losing everything that I had previously considered important.

The girl that I had grown closer to was Muslim, not that I thought of it at the time. One night we sat in McDonalds, taking advantage of their free refill coffee offer and talked about religion, mainly in what way we believed in God. She was the one asking the questions mostly, about how I thought God to be. I enjoyed the discussion and felt somehow that I might be making…