Sunday, February 20, 2005
My mom said 2 and a half years ago that often people in relationships say things that don´t really mean anything. My mom is a smart woman and I don´t listen to her words nearly enough. Phrases like "Your name is the best ever" can be told to many people, and the speaker may in fact be truthful about his sentiments. His audience, however, may receive it as absolute truth, a statement belonging to no other.
I have a hard time understanding how people can go from relationship to relationship. My heart is very fragile, I have come to realize. My soul wasn´t meant for that type of emotional promiscuity. It has been 5 and a half months and I still try to sort out everything in my mind
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I have read 9 books in the last 5 and a half weeks:
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (re-read. It was the first book I read of his. It is what made me fall in love with his writing
Fight Club- Chuck Pahlowiehgeige
Certain Women- Madelein L'Engle
Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee (My favorite book ever)
Motorcycle Diaries-Che Guevera
Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
Many Mexicos- Lesley Byrd Simpson
I guess that makes eleven? I don´t know if i can count anymore.
I have been reading a lot of books about death and loss. I don´t like it at all. My grandma is sick with pneumonia. And so it goes, huh?
I am still in Mexico. Mexico, Mexico.
"In fact, the revolution today demands that they learn, demands that they understand well that the pride of serving our fellow man is much more important than a good income; that the people's gratitude is much more permanent, much more lasting than all the gold one can acculmulate. Each doctor, in the sphere of their activity, can and should accumulate that prized treasure, the people's gratitude.
We must then begin to erase our old concepts and come ever closer and ever more critically to the people. Not in the way got closer before, because all of you will say: "No, I am a friend, of the people. I enjoy talking with workesr and peasants, and on Sundays I go to such and such a place to see such and such a thing." Everybody has done that. But they have done it practising a charity, and what we have to practise today is solidarity. We should not draw closer to the people to say: "Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you with our science, to domonstrate your errors, your lack of refinement, your lack of elementary knowledge." We should go with an investigative zeal and with a human spirit, to learn from the great source of wisdom that is the people."-- Che Guevara, 1960, in a speech to medical students.
I have a hard time understanding how people can go from relationship to relationship. My heart is very fragile, I have come to realize. My soul wasn´t meant for that type of emotional promiscuity. It has been 5 and a half months and I still try to sort out everything in my mind
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I have read 9 books in the last 5 and a half weeks:
Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (re-read. It was the first book I read of his. It is what made me fall in love with his writing
Fight Club- Chuck Pahlowiehgeige
Certain Women- Madelein L'Engle
Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee (My favorite book ever)
Motorcycle Diaries-Che Guevera
Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut
Many Mexicos- Lesley Byrd Simpson
I guess that makes eleven? I don´t know if i can count anymore.
I have been reading a lot of books about death and loss. I don´t like it at all. My grandma is sick with pneumonia. And so it goes, huh?
I am still in Mexico. Mexico, Mexico.
"In fact, the revolution today demands that they learn, demands that they understand well that the pride of serving our fellow man is much more important than a good income; that the people's gratitude is much more permanent, much more lasting than all the gold one can acculmulate. Each doctor, in the sphere of their activity, can and should accumulate that prized treasure, the people's gratitude.
We must then begin to erase our old concepts and come ever closer and ever more critically to the people. Not in the way got closer before, because all of you will say: "No, I am a friend, of the people. I enjoy talking with workesr and peasants, and on Sundays I go to such and such a place to see such and such a thing." Everybody has done that. But they have done it practising a charity, and what we have to practise today is solidarity. We should not draw closer to the people to say: "Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you with our science, to domonstrate your errors, your lack of refinement, your lack of elementary knowledge." We should go with an investigative zeal and with a human spirit, to learn from the great source of wisdom that is the people."-- Che Guevara, 1960, in a speech to medical students.
