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Deep Thoughts - Day Nineteen
Aug. 10th, 2012 11:20 am19. If you could be anywhere in the world, but you had to be there for a certain cause, where would you be and why?
I'm not sure what "being there for a cause" really means. Does it mean being there for a purpose other than "just for fun" or does it mean a cause like helping people or fixing something or that kind of thing? If I could be anywhere in the world and serving some kind of purpose, maybe I would like to be back in China, maybe teaching English. Thing is, I wonder if I wouldn't feel the same about being in China since the people I was there to see are now HERE. Maybe it would just seem like being in a very foreign environment, and I would just find it stressful. Actually... I don't really want to be in China, much as I actually do. I wish I had been able to stay there longer and see more and do more and just, you know, absorb more... but I think I'd have terrible accessibility issues and I wouldn't actually be that happy there.
So, what's a cause that could use my contribution? Maybe... language preservation? Studying and documenting languages that are going extinct? I think that might count as a cause, preserving something for posterity. And that's something that's happening all over the world, so I could really go anywhere. So, ok. I'd stay here, in North America, but I'd travel the continent preserving language samples from Native Americans. So, there. That's my cause.
I'm not sure what "being there for a cause" really means. Does it mean being there for a purpose other than "just for fun" or does it mean a cause like helping people or fixing something or that kind of thing? If I could be anywhere in the world and serving some kind of purpose, maybe I would like to be back in China, maybe teaching English. Thing is, I wonder if I wouldn't feel the same about being in China since the people I was there to see are now HERE. Maybe it would just seem like being in a very foreign environment, and I would just find it stressful. Actually... I don't really want to be in China, much as I actually do. I wish I had been able to stay there longer and see more and do more and just, you know, absorb more... but I think I'd have terrible accessibility issues and I wouldn't actually be that happy there.
So, what's a cause that could use my contribution? Maybe... language preservation? Studying and documenting languages that are going extinct? I think that might count as a cause, preserving something for posterity. And that's something that's happening all over the world, so I could really go anywhere. So, ok. I'd stay here, in North America, but I'd travel the continent preserving language samples from Native Americans. So, there. That's my cause.
