Make It Happen!

So I am a little late with this post, but as many of you may know, I officially completed my 28th year of breathing on 12 Dec.  I am not a big fan of birthday fanfare, but I wanted to thank everyone for the well wishes!  Especially Aunt Rita, who sent Marco and I a "Make It Happen" team uniform.  Since inside jokes don't make friends, I will explain.  "Make It Happen" has become my mantra since moving to Japan because that is how things work here. 

In Japan, you don't try to explain why a two-lane paved road suddenly becomes only one lane, you just keep driving.  And when that road abruptly becomes a dirt road riddled with potholes, you don't stop driving.  You Make It Happen! 

You don't try to explain why it is socially acceptable to stop in the middle of a skinny two-lane road on a bridge when you have an incoming cell-phone call in Japan.  As long as you turn on your flashers, everyone else trying to use the road for its originally intended purpose just has to Make It Happen!

And don't worry about the mess of crossed (but insulated, of course) live wires above your head or the fact that the same road intersects itself in multiple spots (see my post about Hirosaki).  Make It Happen!

I think you can see the pattern.

Thanks AR!