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Tanabata is celebrated on July 7th. To put it simply, it is a day celebrating the reunion of two celestial lovers who are only allowed to meet on this particular day. To celebrate this day, Japanese write wishes on long strips of paper and tie it to brightly decorated bamboo trees.
Enishi, Chima, and I were meandering around Meidaimae Station at around 2AM when I decided that I wanted to write MY wish and tie it to a bamboo tree. Luckily there was a Tanabata bamboo tree right outside the station so I didn't have too go far.
The wishes that other people wrote ran the gambut to the absurd all the way to the heart-wrenching. It really breaks my heart to read wishes that ask for family members to recover from an illness or those that are written by children who wish for a their mom or dad to return home after a divorce. My wish was very simple.."I WANT TO GRADUATE AND SOON!!!!" |
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