Things done

Visa work done!
It's strange how sometimes things can be as easy as walking into the prefecture office and getting things done without saying as much as two lines.
Usually this procedure involves a bit of a while as the documents (passport) get collected and the process takes a couple weeks but today I simply had to walk in at the designated time and collect what I needed and done!

While it was easy for me there were also refugees and immigrants with their social workers who were going back and forth with their discussions and documentations and elaborate certifications and what not.

I felt for some of those families that might have evacuated their countries for a better life for their children and are now stuck in this loop of incomprehensible document provision where they might be certified as refugees or might have special status as immigrants or what not from war torn countries or maybe just nations that don't treat their people well.
I don't know!

I realised my privilege when a stricken looking woman from some Islamic nation with a small family and with her kids in tow gave my resident card a wistful look, almost yearning and then she glared at me probably trying to figure out why some things are so easy for some and so impossibly difficult for some.

There were people who were visiting this bureau on the daily apparently, sometimes imploring, sometimes pleading, sometimes appending their documents and getting new appointment days each time.

Sighs. I don't know. Sometimes some things don't make much sense.