In a situation where something unexpected happens, what should you do?
- Panic
- Blame the universe
- Accept that the next several hours of your life are going to be remarkable and accept it
This past weekend, several things went terribly wrong. Let me preface this by saying that at this moment I’m not home. I’m not in Shanghai, and not even in China. I’m in East Berlin, writing this from an apartment in Kreuzberg. And here, in Eastern Kreuzberg is where things so very rapidly went south. It’s not worth writing what happened exactly, because some things don’t merit any number of words, but I’m just glad we made it out of the situation in one piece.
As a ‘blogger’, the question of what I write and what I don’t write about is something that is constantly on my mind. In my writing (and life), I feel that it’s wrong to recount events that happened as “I did this thing” and then “I went here and saw this neat monument”. At the same time, this isn’t a 16-year-old’s Tumblr blog where I am abstractly describing my emotions (“I feel so angsty so let me not tell everyone why”). Sure, there are things that I’ve written about that inevitably bring up difficult feelings, such as the Elmhurst, or that one time I lost it on the J train coming from Park Slope, but in general I’ve tried to focus on the positives.
So when things went terribly wrong, I went with no. 3.
Well, if nothing else, I like your list. Very Doctor Who.
Thank you! Although I must admit, I’ve never seen Doctor Who before..
whenever I feel bad I watch Maury Show and then I think ‘at least I’m not on Maury’
oh man, i wish they still aired that! but that’s what YouTube is for, right? 🙂
They actually still do 😀
You can combine three types of blogs together. And to say something like this, “I saw this terrible monument and all of a sudden I felt so angsty and here’s why” =)
After I got home from Shanghai myself, I haven’t been blogging too much or else I might have seen that you were in Berlin… but if I had known sooner I would have gladly offered my services as guide to show you around my beloved adopted hometown! I hope you didn’t have too terrible of a time here! 🙁
Berlin was, for the most part, absolutely wonderful and fascinating! I have been horrible about checking WP myself lately, but if we are in Germany again, I’ll absolutely reach out! 😀