Won’t you let me in?
Open heart, open door
A warm welcoming
Wanting little more
Than a hand to hold here
As we cross the floor
Overcome our fear
Let’s go through together
Our intentions clear
In silk and feather
We find ourselves humming
A friend forever
Won’t you let me….
Today I’m feeling:
Like I haven’t slept enough. I could easily curl up and snooze for a bit but hopefully, this coffee will kick-start the morning.
Today I’m grateful for:
Having things to read while sitting around doing nothing at school this afternoon whilst the Thai teachers were keeping the kids occupied. After an hour and a half though I snuck out and didn’t bother signing out either. Hopefully, that doesn’t come back to bite me but Scout week is one of those frustrating wastes of time for us foreign teachers.
The best thing about today was:
Amy’s dinner of fried rice with fish sausage, crunchy cabbage, carrot and topped off with a perfectly fried egg. Since I started just eating breakfast and skipping lunch I’ve been able to easily adapt to eating rice almost every day at dinner time.
What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?
Despite having to show groups of 8-10-year-olds over and over again how to tie knots this morning and itching to get out for more coffee it wasn’t actually too bad. David and I had fun with the kids, some of whom were hilarious.
It was interesting to notice how much better their English is than the kids we actually teach who are up to 5 years older. We finished up at around 11.30 and I was happy to get away by then.
Something I learned today?
From Stephen Fry’s SubStack he talked about how in a group of twenty people, for example, there will be a leader, a clown, a know-it-all, a shy one, a complainer, a rebel etc and then if you take all the leaders and put them into a group, all the rebels into a group and so on, within each group they will soon revert back to having a leader, a clown, a know-it-all etc
Review your acts, and then for vile deeds chide yourself, for good be glad. — Discourses 3.10
In the morning I met Waiz’s younger sister who always runs up to me for a fist bump. I had just been given a scout scarf and asked her to ‘do it’ for me because I wasn’t sure how. She then folded it up and put it on me as she had been taught to do. It didn’t look great but I kept wearing it because she had done it for me.
25 THINGS ABOUT LIFE I WISH I HAD KNOWN 10 YEARS AGO – 12. Money Isn’t Important. It really isn’t. But you have to train yourself not to care about money. Don’t become too dependent on the stuff you own; otherwise, the stuff will own you.
Money is important when you want to do things. As I’ve aged I’m starting to want to do less.
As I write that I question myself whether that is true or not. Sure some things have dropped off but I still have stacks of music that I haven’t properly listened to yet. Years and years worth of books and comics that I wish to read.
So perhaps I should say that I refined some of the things that I want to do. I want to read more than travel but hell, I’d still like to travel. I guess I’m taking the easier path more often these days. But I also see doing less as more suitable to my age.
Damn, I’m conflicted with this because I’m always imploring people to do something, to do more! The dichotomy of life in Thailand is rubbing off on me!
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