Epiphany of Perspectives

Different perspectives on life is how culture and people are created. As we have gone

through this I have not just witnessed the different perspectives from my peers, new faces, and future friends but also myself! As we have embarked on this trip I have found perspectives everywhere. Today especially was largely about the different perspectives of life in all forms.

After waking up, I go down to get breakfast with my roommate Anna. As I walk into the

restaurant, the differences are apparent rather than what people look like, what they are wearing, and just what they are eating. Nobody is the same, down to what food they choose to eat. After eating we go to the Miraikan, The Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, where the 7 different floors are based on different perspectives and trades of science. What fascinated me the most was floor 3 and 5. Both of which were about what the universe could be and what it could possibly become. The digital nature, and the future of how the earth will develop. It is up to my generation and next to come to see what we want our future to look like.

Miraikan Museum exhibition (Pictured Left) ; Hanging out with Sophia scholars after hours (Pictured Right)

After leaving the museum, we got to meet our Sofia counterparts and they were nothing

short of amazing. Every single one of them were so kind and even though it was our first time meeting in person, they all made it their goal to make us feel welcomed and almost like home ina totally new environment. As we got to know each other through ice breakers and slides, my perspective was changed. I came into this thinking, their lives would be vastly different; however just like me they are regular college students just trying to get through their classes and hang out with friends.

As I got to see Japan through their perspective, it was so similar to what I do with

my friends. Eat, shop, and laugh, and while it's not that I didn’t expect the Sophia students to do so. I just didn’t know it would be so natural to also do it with us. It is up to us to bring together different perspectives instead of being isolated and separated like past generations. That is the only way we can survive, with each other!