>gushing
delicious choice of phrase
Hmmm i'd need to know where you were all those years ago, you might be in the same place, or you might have used the time you spent learning Japanese on another language and be in that country, or on some other skill and you might be somewhere now using that skill, maybe even getting paid for it!
Well, >>272, what's your favourite food? It may seem like an unimaginative question but I'm genuinely interested.