Spent 3 days with a naturist

In this trip in Barcelona, I used the couchsurfing for the first time. It's a platform where travelers and hosts can be connected. I stayed for 3 days in my host's house. The guy called Daniel is a naturist. For people who don't know it, naturist is a person who love and respect nature for everything. This means of course they are naked in their house. They love forest, river, sea...evreything in nature. We were naked in his house for three days. At first, this was very strange and very nervous and a little bit scary for me because this was completely new and I didn't know him. To tell the truth, he was very interesting, free, intelligent, kind, open-minded...I can depict him with various adjectives. This means he have opened and developed the capacity inside him greatly. With just one word, he is very attractive. We talked about from very private things to public things. There was no taboo between us. He has travelled around the world and experienced a lot of things. For example, when the revolution happened in Egypt, he had lhved and worked there. I don't think I could open my mind to him in this new situation, but I just tried it. It made me  more confident and get used to challenge new experiences by the last day. When I was naked, I felt too much shyness and a kind of guilty. We discussed about it and we agreed this was because of Japanese culture. Culture, it's the most influential thing on us and we struggle with getting out of it in order to know other worlds outside. I felt much difficulty in it and noticed it was so stressful. However, so as to know other cultures in mind, we need to do it. Without it, we can't say we know other cultures. Anyway, he has very different value from me and the naked was one of the mediums to know each other. We sometimes hugged to show our connection and respect. When I hugged him at first, I was so nervous and it made me very uncomfortable. He was just relaxed. After that, I felt a kind of energy inside. I felt a little bit grad for that. We found the difference among cultures. He often asked me "Ca va?" or "Are you happy?". I said "I think so". I found this was a thinking, not feeling. I am always thinking something and had forgotten how to feel. He maybe noticed that and implied it with such questions. Also, he didn't like me using my phone when we were together. He always tried to share time with me. I noticed that my attention had dispersed a lot. I had paid attention to unimportant things. He like massaging others. For him, massage is one way to exchange energy.


Finally, he said to me, "If you study hard, what you want to be devoted to will come to you by itself.


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