The Yang of the Yin and Yang

Oh sunshine, shone brightly through my window today,
Could have tripped out quite easy but I decided to stay
Donavan, Happy Mondays

This was an email I sent to someone in Thailand when I was in England in Spring 2006, when I came back I had the last line quoted to me:

Can you package the following; excellent weather, blue sky, the feeling of sun on skin, beautiful sunsets, beautiful women, bizarre nonsensical conversations, cheap good food, pad thai, some annoying woman dressed in hill tribe dress but really from Pathum Thani trying to sell a wooden frog or pipe, cheap poor beer, a sense of overall well being and satisfaction, occasional conversation with some of the most intelligent well travelled consuming people of the world, a tuk tuk, more beautiful women, knowledge one can always just go to the beach, the thrill of a visa run, wrong directions, a smile, happiness, ESPN, Beerlao, a bowl of noodle soup, a classroom, loads of daft kids to teach, some sticky rice, somtam, a litany of left wing literature otherwise unobtainable, a Buddha, some flip flops, a university uniform, a feeling that your life is worth living, a cheap and obtainable dentist appointment, a game of football with a plastic coconut, a death defying motorbike taxi journey, a feeling of reallly belonging, hope?

All I have to remind me of all this is two pots of Tiger Balm, 700 Baht and my memories.

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