Japanese girls

Japanese Girls

I've always liked Japanese girls. They are so gorgeous and so animated.
Yet, they seem to have an overall sadness to them (which for some strange reason only adds to my attraction for them).

When I was in high school, one of the hottest girls was a girl of Japanese decent. She got good grades, she excelled in tennis, and she smiled all the time. She was also genuinely nice. And she was about as attracted to me as I'm currently attracted to Bette Milder. Why?

Japanese fathers instill in their daughters from an early age to find a guy who's going somewhere, which I think is a good thing. It wouldn't be in her best interest to end up with some guy whose sole purpose in life is to entertain us on the Jerry Springer Show.

In high school, I resembled that more than a guy who was going somewhere. I had long hair, wore heavy metal t-shirts and ripped jeans, and hung around the stoners, not because I was a stoner, but because they weren't boring. She and I were in all the same classes, and she knew full well I also had the brains. It's just, I was close to failing everything because I simply didn't care. She even straight out asked me once why I was such a slacker. I think I told her something along the lines that I wanted to be a musician, not a suit.

School never interested me until college, where I did start making the Dean's list every other semester because it was interesting, something grade school wasn't. High school plays towards the lowest common denominator, and one with a working brain often gets bored out of his or her mind. I learned quickly that in creative writing, my writing was too offensive. In college, they loved my writing because it was gutsy and original. I love reading, writing, and music, and high school seemed to discourage all those things, unless you read books that were outdated and safe, you wrote things that were safe, and your music was boring and safe. That was over a decade ago. I imagine after Columbine it's ten times worse. I feel so badly for young people nowadays.

So that said, I never had a Japanese girlfriend. As you guessed, Mrs.
Zombieslayer's a white American, as were all my past girlfriends. But seeing these pictures of Chaiki Kuriyama had me thinking of that girl in high school, who I bet is still pretty, making six figures right now at a job she hates, with a husband who's married to his work, and she's wondering what it would have been like if she ended up with that heavy metal Zombieslayer dude.