1.28.2009

In My 25th Year

photo from juiced pixels 

In my 25th year
I moved to Korea
I grew to love 30 children
and hate them just as much 
all within an 8 hour period
I learned to eat kimchi
and to twist a few Korean words
around in my mouth
I picked up chopsticks
I dropped chopsticks
I wore my food
I picked up chopsticks 
I started blogging 
with the intent to blog
and I started talking about my blog
without planning on it
I started saying 
"The other day my friend said"
when really I could say
"I was reading a blog the other day and it said"
I slept 
I read good books
I did not read enough poetry
I lost a beautiful friendship 
to culture and customs different from my own
I had my appendix out
in a hospital with pretty nurses
 and ajummas rustling plastic bags
like they had found their true calling and purpose in life
I didn't sleep
I got engaged
I got pushed and whacked and handled
on the subway 
and expressed, suppressed, and channeled my Rage in the A.M.
I got angry
I got angrier
I drank coffee
I found things to be happy about
I lost 8 kilograms
I ate delicious donuts
I hiked up mountains 
I ate cookies on mountains
I hiked down mountains
I missed my mom
I missed my dad
I missed my sister
I missed my wifey
I missed my friends
I saw my mom, dad, sister, wifey, and friends
I watched my sister get married
I watched my fiance discover my home
I learned to wait 
I got married
I got a new family
I made new friends
I found a community
I had snow and ice on my eyelashes and in my eyebrows
I sat in a hot tub without any clothes on
surrounded by staring naked ajummas
and bowed to old women
with no teeth
I discovered that I was so much more than I had ever been before
I discovered that there was so much more to be
I laughed
really loud
I forgot certain things
I remembered others
and I wrote about my 25th year
after I had lived it's last hour


8 comments:

  1. I hope you have fewer ragey moments in your 26th year, and more opportunities to stand at the top of mountains and be in love.

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  2. "The other day my friend said"
    when really I could say
    I was reading a blog the other day and it said"

    Same thing :)

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  3. Happy Birthday! I love the part about telling people what a friend said when you really mean what a blogger said. I do that too!

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  4. What a year!!! I hope your 26th is just as good ;)

    Jennifer
    www.jennipal.blogspot.com

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  5. Hi there. Your blog was nominated for an award for the best Korea blogs of 2008, at The Hub Of Sparkle. Go check it out if you like.

    http://www.koreasparkle.com/2009/01/the-golden-klog-awards-survey-is-up-go-vote/#content

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  6. I'm going to do this and remember what it was like to write. It's like riding a bicycle, I think...it's like remembering looking across a darkened room at 3 enthusiastic poets screaming Kerouac by candlelight...yes, it must be like that:-)

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  7. "I discovered that I was so much more than I had ever been before."

    This is absolutely poetic! I love how you wrote this, and captured all those little moments in your year.

    It was quite a year, too, was it not? I'm sure twenty-six will be just as glorious.

    :)

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