Someone has asked me why Mike and I picked Gaijin for Life as our theme earlier. It's a small story, but one that should be told.
We were sitting around, as we do, drinking beers one night. The topic of what home is like came up. I, being from Omaha, began to talk about how much the city has changed since I've been gone: the urban sprawl that is closing farms, the enormous arena that has gone up, the increase in population, the closing of the old baseball stadium that hosted the College World Series on an annual basis, and on and on and on. Mikey, being from somewhere in podunk Canada, talked about how the hockey team had gone to Arizona and then came back (so in the end nothing changed I guess).
As the topic continued, the inevitable question came up: "Would you consider going home? And if so, what would it be like?"
We both agreed on nothing. Nothing would be the same. The face of the matter is that we have moved on from our hometowns, they have both changed. If either of us were to go back with the missus, that we would feel out of place. We are Gaijin no matter where we go. Hence, we are Gaijin for life.
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