So i started reading Moby Dick. I am ashamed to say, i didin't finish it. Has anyone ever read Moby Dick? I found it terribly difficult, i made it about a third of the way through and he STILL hasn't found the damn whale. but there is this great quote which i will leave for you now:
"Here was a man, some 20,000 miles from home...thrown among people as strange to him as if he were on the planet Jupiter: and yet, he seemed entirely at ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself."
I am beginning to learn the depth of these words. Contrary to popular belief, and perhaps my own journal entries, travelling isn't always easy. Sometimes its lonely, rainy, frightening, and sometimes it can be sad. i wouldn't trade where i am now with anyone in the world. Even though i lost my glasses, and my umbrella broke and i was starving, wet to the bone like a soaked cat, the bus driver got into a fight with someone on the bus so this chinese girl is crying, the bus driver is in her face and the bus is stopped. But I am here. Not only here, in China, but here - alive. breathing this fabulously smogged air and way too many second hand cigarettes! Here where the temples smoke their insensce as prayers to the gods and lanterns cast red shadows on the streets. Where the rain makes music on the curved traditional rooftops and the eyes of the people are a solid dark.
Its one hell of a world we live in and there is so much Beauty in it. Maybe it wouldn't seem so lovely without those Grover's Bad Awful Days- when you step in gum, loose your ice cream and bullies at school make fun of you :) (its a sesame street book, my mom used to read to me when i had those 'bad awful days')
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