Tadaima~~~

This is a part two of sorts for the previous post.

"I'm back."
"Welcome back..."

If you are not Japanese but watch enough Japanese shows, blessed enough to visit Japan, you may eventually end up hearing "okaeri" (おかえり), often spoken when one returns to one's home. 

Ghosts aside, it is customary for someone inside the house besides the one returning, to greet their return by uttering "tadaima" (ただいま). 

This is poignant for this stage of my life. I am finally back full circle to my stage of development 17 years ago. It has been a vicious journey, an incredible cycle of betrayal and hope, despair and joy, ever in pursuit of ...

But once again I got ahead of myself. 

Will you welcome me? O-kae-ri-nasai? Or will that vicious cycle begin again?

Here I kanpai to the past that brought me here, the future as yet unwritten or unrevealed, and the peace that surrounds the present.

Gouchijou-sama-desu. Arigato-gozaru-yo...