I’ve Outgrown America

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I’ve Outgrown America

Life abroad reflections

I’ve outgrown America. It’s ill-gotten wealth no longer has any appeal and is very well contributing to a DECREASED quality of life. Tell me if I’m wrong about that.

Life abroad is full of truth bombs and eye-openers. I’m about to devour a one pound organic mango which I bought for about $ 0.20. Monthly living expenses (medical not necessary, knock on wood) average around $250 including housing, two offices, food, transportation, phone, Internet access, electricity, and sundry other smaller expenses. I walk regularly for physical and mental health and usually take my iPod to set the moods for long extended thinking. Oh, the iPod is jam-packed with music from around the continent as well as the classics of pop, blues, jazz, r&b which take me through memory lane and lend context current life here in East Africa.

Yeah, I guess there’s an American side of me but it’s often out of synch with the African me. When walking to my office some days ago a meter long green snake was sun-bathing and very still on a raised concrete slab I alway encounter along the path. The American side of me said, “Kill it now, smash it to pudding!” The African side of me said, “There are hundreds, if not thousands of these critters around us all of the time. Walk around it, mind my own business, let it be. If I don’t try to hurt him, he won’t hurt me even though it’s a guest in these well-populated community. That’s what people here do. Similarly, I was walking on the dirt road leading to my home and saw another much shorter and fatter snake also lying very still on the warm earth in the middle of the road. I’m certain it saw, felt, and heard me approaching but remained frozen in place. I simply walked far around it and proceeded on my way. That was the African side of me at work…

The little volcano mud structure is a wasp nest which was attached to the underside of my desk. Apparently, the two kittens knocked it down to the ground and had something to bat around with their paws. That nest is a structural miracle in itself and is incredibly strong given the typical strength of an insect. Being indoors it doesn’t have to vanish due to water destruction or rampaging wildfires. Yeah, miracles all around if I just open my third eye… Some people in the world just go about a little differently and more successfully. I’m made some deliberate choices.

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Mechanical/Solar Engineer, Prof. Oku Singer

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