Kate
I suppose I could say a few words about myself. Even though I’d like to keep this blog pseudonymous a few basic background information wouldn’t hurt right? 
I’m a female, currently in my early 20s in year 2008. It’s hard to say where I live or where I’m from because I don’t really know how to answer that myself. If I were to go into details about why it is so, it would be a dead give away of who I am if someone that knows me in the world happens to drop by. Anyways, my current home is Seoul, South Korea.
story of my life.
I’m just visiting family, working and preparing for law school for reasons god knows why.
I am single and the reason why I mention this is because love and relationships is a big part of our lives even if our world is burning down and constantly having to live a nomadic life for fear of death. I quote from Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat Pray Love”
These Cambodians had suffered the worst of what humans can inflict on each other – genocide, rape, torture, starvation, the murder of their relatives before their eyes, then long years in refugee camps and dangerous boat trips to the West where people died and corpses were fed to sharks – what could Deborah offer these people in terms of help? How could she possibly relate to their suffering?
“But don’t you know,” Deborah reported to me, “what all these people wanted to talk about, once they could see a counselor?”
It was all: I met this guy when I was living in the refugee camp…, but I still love him and I can’t stop thinking about him. And I don’t know what to do…
This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape.
Everything is somehow manageable.
So excuse me if love & relationships take up the majority of the tags of my blog but that’s what it really comes down to. We’ve all had those moments; even when we’re completely engrossed in a project that’s due in less than 2 hours and yet we’re still thinking about your ex-boyfriend who turned your world upside down (I don’t mean that in a positive sense). Because “everything is somehow manageable” except when it comes to love.
Right now I’m at the stage of my life where love and relationship don’t seem as important as everything else such as family, friends, and my future. But I realize from time to time – especially when I see all the lawyers working nights and weekends instead of spending time with their family – what is the point in all of it? In the end, you’re going to grow old and when you’re unable to work anymore you’re going to be all alone or in a broken marriage caused by the insane work schedule for some dough.
Yes, money is good. I’m just going to say it: I love money and it makes me happy. But if I had a choice of having all the money in the world or true love I wouldn’t hesitate for a second. True love would definitely be my first and final choice.
Rock on baby.
