Thimphu Freak Out
I've been lying a little in this blog. Life in Bhutan wasn't all prayer flags, green scenery and magical clouds. There was another side too. This is a genuine message I sent to a family member during my first days in Bhutan. I read it now with a smile, with a sense of dramatic irony because I know that everything turned out OK. But it's an honest artefact of how it felt to be a few days into a new life, completely removed from anything familiar or safe. And -- dammit, I loved those headphones. Well today has been a very very hard day for me. It began with not being able to find a very nice (and expensive) set of headphones I bought myself, which made me much more upset than it needed to… I mean, they're gone, but… well, they're gone, and the suffering that came from that is the issue now. It made me doubt myself and my ability to be responsible enough to look after myself. Honestly it's a fear of the immensity of going to the east on tuesday, a fru