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smokingboot ([personal profile] smokingboot) wrote2007-04-20 08:19 am
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Yesterday I bimbled, trying on pretty perfumes for the summer, flirting with gorgeous guys and making eyes at a beautiful genius. Butterfly woman, silly laughing girl, dancing in the sumshine.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the same planet:

http://www.counterpunch.org/kroth04182007.html

I thank [personal profile] illuminating_dragon with all my heart for this link.

[identity profile] andsoitisso.livejournal.com 2007-04-20 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
That was a good article. That is the thing about India - it is a little bit of a paradox really. I used to wonder all the time how it worked...that India had almost absolutely nothing, and people in general are relatively much happier - they are always smiling.

And the thing is though people are poorer - there is always too much social contact - it is unavoidable and they are involved in each others' lives(and trust me, sometimes it is such a pain). And because of contact, people are happier. That is one of the reasons I came back to India.

"For small creatures such as us, the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan.

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2007-04-20 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
A fascinating place, I hope to visit as soon as I can! And contact I suppose breeds understanding and love; poor Cho and poor people whose lives were shattered by him! I don't know what matters more, to be accepted or loved, or to be able to stand alone. Both perhaps.