Revenir

The question of leaving Japan has never been a tangible issue with me. Going back where afterall? To that place once called home? 20+ years have made the word home obsolite. The pangs of nostalgia, remote or in-situ when going back to Paris are symptoms of a longing for something I can't clearly figure out, which rooted not in the reality of the place, but tainted by iddle thought and much readings. I have never read so much about Paris since I left. The reasons to be here, to stay there, to move elsewhere or back over there may be categorized if the purpose would be to investigate in a social science kind of approach the subject of expatriation. I would love to do this. In the meantime, a reader of my French blog came to me the other day, referrin to his moving back to France after 20 years spent in Japan. I am to interview him on Monday and hardly can't wait for that lucky opportunity to hear about first hands experience of "le retour".