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verbicideJust got off phone with dad. He was calling to check on my appt, how it went, etc. Good, good. Then, "Soon we'll have to find you a nice Muslim boy! I need to play with my grandchildren!" Argh.
Ask me to share your fantasies, dear,
but don't ask me where tomorrow is.
Don't ask me where to find happiness,
though I know for sure where sorrow is.
Sorrow is where the dark meets the light
Someday I pray my fears will take flight
Sorrow is where all hope fades from sight *
Morbidly, I can't help but laugh. My dad, bless him, still thinks I'm 18 and only seconds away from finding a nice Muslim doctor who will have the best parts of both American and Pakistani culture, and none of the bad. I can't bear to shatter his fantasy that such a vision does not exist.
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jeff_nw about this over the weekend. He made a great observation, that if we could only separate all the ideas our parents have about what they felt our life should be, and showed them two versions: one in which their child was miserably living a life that wasn't true to who they were and one in which they were happily living the life they wanted to lead--surely they would choose the blue pill. But sadly there's no way to isolate generations of cultural and religious dogma.
Nights like this really cement my belief that there is no benevolent god. There are only ugly, human entanglements. Human made religions. Divisive. Controlling. Hateful.
And homework assignments (oops, back to reading).
Ask me to share your fantasies, dear,
but don't ask me where tomorrow is.
Don't ask me where to find happiness,
though I know for sure where sorrow is.
Sorrow is where the dark meets the light
Someday I pray my fears will take flight
Sorrow is where all hope fades from sight *
Morbidly, I can't help but laugh. My dad, bless him, still thinks I'm 18 and only seconds away from finding a nice Muslim doctor who will have the best parts of both American and Pakistani culture, and none of the bad. I can't bear to shatter his fantasy that such a vision does not exist.
Talking with
jeff_nw about this over the weekend. He made a great observation, that if we could only separate all the ideas our parents have about what they felt our life should be, and showed them two versions: one in which their child was miserably living a life that wasn't true to who they were and one in which they were happily living the life they wanted to lead--surely they would choose the blue pill. But sadly there's no way to isolate generations of cultural and religious dogma. Nights like this really cement my belief that there is no benevolent god. There are only ugly, human entanglements. Human made religions. Divisive. Controlling. Hateful.
And homework assignments (oops, back to reading).
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Date: 2004-04-07 11:28 pm (UTC)Un huh. That's what they ALL say.
Consider yourself a SiP junkie!!
Did you finish the ones I gave you already? Isn't it GREAT?
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Date: 2004-04-07 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-07 11:34 pm (UTC)I
I also love Tambi and Freddie. In their own, often evil, ways.
Man. It's always such a high introducing someone to this.
I'll bring you the remaining trades since you're ZIPPING right through them!