It was through thinking about how Buddhism is so important in all these countries that I thought about Buddhism for the first time as more than Answer C in the Social Studies MCQ exam. My dad lives in Germany and for many years we lived in India and my grandmother lives in a small town, I could, perhaps for the first time, really feel the pain and loneliness of living in another country. There was another one called My True Friend which had a son living in Italy while his mom lived in India. Not a personal experience but I've heard the stories. The situation of one of the female leads with a difficult husband and terrorizing in laws was all too familiar. Then there was To Dear Myself, a Cdrama, it was so painfully realistic but also realistically hopeful. ![]() Admittedly their classes have fewer students than mine did. Everyone is taller than you and you can't even see what's written. There was a scene where a character is sitting in the back of the tuition class and I remember thinking - OH, that's me. I relate to their desperations, their hard work, their tantrums too. I relate to the teenagers who just want to study well and get good grades. Like I was 20 all over again, barely alive but going to college, going through the motions just the same. It was temporary but I remember the desperation of wanting to eat but everything you eat just comes out. I can relate to the teacher who can barely eat because I've had an eating disorder too. ![]() I can relate to the hardworking mom because when I was in 11th 12th that was my mom, dropping me off at tuitions. ![]() I've recently started Crash Course in Romance, I can relate to something or the other in each character. That was the first time I thought about the use of 'Shree, ji, Sahab, etc.' Before that it always seemed like a thing to dignify someone else as lower but this made me think of it the other way around. One of the Main characters would tell the other guy to always address him with P', which is a Thai honorific for people older than you. I was watching a Thai BL (that is boys love or yaoi) called Love in the Air. I'd seen one or two here and there before but I really got into them - understanding them and relating them to myself in 2022. I really started getting into kdramas / cdramas and Thai BLs in 2022.
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