This is a commercial, but the images of 250,000 bouncy balls in San Fransisco are mesmerizing. It reminds me of The Red Balloon in the way that it pulls you into a seemingly quiet yet surprising and hypnotic story.
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I love that you are Korean-Korean sensitive! AND that the husband can be alone for more than 4 hours at a time...that probably has saved his life on more than one occasion.:) It's also good to be able to "play the game." Middle-of-the-world people do that too!! I'm learning, and think I am getting pretty good at it! Just distance yourself, learn to be okay with a high level of dysfunction, and it's all "normal" from there!
So true! Of course the white folk don't have much of a corner on function, but we're at least 15-20 years ahead in terms of dealing with the emotional fallout. Not so much individually, but as a culture it's now acceptable for us to say we see a counselor. For my Asian-American friends it's taboo and shameful to need 'help'.
I've connected at least 3 second-generation Asian-American friends with counseling. It's like I'm the drug dealer on the corner with the dope; it's top secret that they might need to talk to someone to sort out some of life's pain.
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I love that you are Korean-Korean sensitive! AND that the husband can be alone for more than 4 hours at a time...that probably has saved his life on more than one occasion.:)
It's also good to be able to "play the game." Middle-of-the-world people do that too!! I'm learning, and think I am getting pretty good at it! Just distance yourself, learn to be okay with a high level of dysfunction, and it's all "normal" from there!
So true! Of course the white folk don't have much of a corner on function, but we're at least 15-20 years ahead in terms of dealing with the emotional fallout. Not so much individually, but as a culture it's now acceptable for us to say we see a counselor. For my Asian-American friends it's taboo and shameful to need 'help'.
I've connected at least 3 second-generation Asian-American friends with counseling. It's like I'm the drug dealer on the corner with the dope; it's top secret that they might need to talk to someone to sort out some of life's pain.
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