Unanticipated lightness of being
Unlovable? I don't know....
Unstable? Emotionally,yes...
Giving up on life? Not yet.
On my brother's advice, I need to de-link my happiness from financial success.
Today, I had a very joyful English lesson where all my Secondary One students had a good laugh because I gave them a run-of-the-mill cloze passage but perked it up with jokes about the funnyness(is there such a word? :P nevermind) of the alternative answers to each blank.
And when it came to the run-of-the-mill passage about the Dodo bird, I drew a sketch the poor extinct feathered friend that resembled the cross between a turkey and a duck, and then sketched another lying dead with crossed eyes, writing '1930' on top. The predictable comments about the merits of my art and questions that ranged from the disproportionate lengths of the beaks in the two drawings and the wings looking like a cape made me happy for the first time in a long stretch of days, perhaps weeks.
More laughter when I suggested that one of the stouter girls in my class had caused the demise of the cross-eyed bird by sitting on it(she laughed the hardest!)
Unstable? Emotionally,yes...
Giving up on life? Not yet.
On my brother's advice, I need to de-link my happiness from financial success.
Today, I had a very joyful English lesson where all my Secondary One students had a good laugh because I gave them a run-of-the-mill cloze passage but perked it up with jokes about the funnyness(is there such a word? :P nevermind) of the alternative answers to each blank.
And when it came to the run-of-the-mill passage about the Dodo bird, I drew a sketch the poor extinct feathered friend that resembled the cross between a turkey and a duck, and then sketched another lying dead with crossed eyes, writing '1930' on top. The predictable comments about the merits of my art and questions that ranged from the disproportionate lengths of the beaks in the two drawings and the wings looking like a cape made me happy for the first time in a long stretch of days, perhaps weeks.
More laughter when I suggested that one of the stouter girls in my class had caused the demise of the cross-eyed bird by sitting on it(she laughed the hardest!)
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