HELLO!
Been a while. That's because my life is amazingly unsurprising. It is eventful, yet routine. Chinese 9-11. Secretary life 11-1. Chinese 1-2. Secretary life 2-5. Theatre Job 6-9. Study 9-12. Sleep 12-5. Study 5-9. Repeat.
That is my life. Well, and AIESEC shoved into nooks and crannies. For the cultural goodness (and riboflavin). So instead of whining about how ALL of my friends are in crazy cool exotic countries over the summer, or that I haven't really slept in weeks, etc, etc. I will copy and paste a story I appreciated...
"One of my favorite concepts in anthropology is that of the polite fiction. It's something nobody believes, but we all pretend to because it makes life so much easier. My favorite example was of a Pygmy couple. Pygmy divorce involves quite literally breaking up the home: the couple tears apart their house (it's easy - the houses are made of leaves) and once it's down, the union is dissolved. One anthropologist was watching a long-married couple have a fight. It escalated until the wife threatened to leave, and the husband yelled something along the lines of "Fine!" and there was nothing the wife could do but start tearing down the house. She began tearing the roof off, clearly miserable. The husband looked wretched too, but at this point neither could back down without losing face and by now the whole village was watching.
Finally, the husband called out the Pygmy equivalent of "You're right, honey! The roof is dirty! It'll look much better once we get those leaves washed!" The two of them started carrying leaves down to the river, soon with the help of the whole village, and then washed and rebuilt the whole roof".
Hmmm mmmm hmmm. Not that I'm one to admit I'm wrong, but perhaps a bit of incentive for the future. =)
