cleaning up
so my dad is renovating the house, leaving it a bit unfamiliar to me. I'm trying to tidy up my room - throw away unnecessary and unmeaningful junk, and at the same time go over the things i have. I was clearing some stuff into the downstairs storage room when i found a treasure-trove of old photographs. There's pictures of me as a baby, i found pictures of my dad at 30! (daddy had me at 24, and i've always thought of that to be a good decision cuz we've been able to lessen the whole "generation gap" thing.. but really, having a 6 year old at 30? i know plenty of 30 olds .. that i just can't imagine with children! It's weird.) There's just so many pictures! It took me about 3 hours to go through 2 crates, i still have 2 more to go!! There's pictures of family vacations from LONG ago.. man was i an awkward teen, and these amazing pictures of the Dalai Lama (don't ask) and all the tibet trips my mom use to take. It's kind of funny but almost unconsciously i'm following in their footsteps. My mom use to be crazy about Tibet, and i guess i was brought up in the environment and it has definitely rubbed off. It's so weird to i found a picture of my mom in front of Gandansi near Lhasa, one of the monestarys we are rather close with.. and this picture was taken in 1993.. i visited last month... and the CHANGE! it's unbelieveable! Even from 2000, my last visit, Lhasa has changed so much. Truth be told, i don't really appreciate the change - it's just turned into any other "modern" city. I liked it better in the backwaters. But that's rather unfair of me to say. ANd though, Lhasa has lost that kind of "mystic" feeling (as modern cities tend to do) it has kept its roots. You still see the teahouses at everyconer - hopefully they won't be taken over by Starbucks. I don't think i saw any Starbucks there.. WOW isn't that a first, i wonder how long it'll take before they start their invasion. Anyhow, back to the pictures... so many forgotten memories.. or not forgotten but just memories put aside, now rekindled. I really was such a weird looking teenager - pictures of me from 12-15 are just BAD and 16 till now just a bit wrong. and you can see my phases of not wanting to be in photos, being a tomboy, being rude, my MUN phase... etc. some of this probably should be forgotten. But i was an adorable kid. =D
and i found a book signed by the Dalai Lama! Which actually has been in my room the whole time! haha, its funny.
Oh yea, and pictures of me like 8 yrs old playing around at the UN headquarters. Haha SO weird.. its like it's destiny! hehe
and there is absolutely everything in our storage rooms. Like the same kind of beads i bought in Tibet.. but just better ones that my mom spent money. There's textiles that i was about to buy from xinjiang... there's just so much stuff! No wonder my mom's never interested in what i buy when i go traveling. Even African stuff that my dad collected.. So weird. SO SO WEIRD... do we end up like our parents?
and i found a book signed by the Dalai Lama! Which actually has been in my room the whole time! haha, its funny.
Oh yea, and pictures of me like 8 yrs old playing around at the UN headquarters. Haha SO weird.. its like it's destiny! hehe
and there is absolutely everything in our storage rooms. Like the same kind of beads i bought in Tibet.. but just better ones that my mom spent money. There's textiles that i was about to buy from xinjiang... there's just so much stuff! No wonder my mom's never interested in what i buy when i go traveling. Even African stuff that my dad collected.. So weird. SO SO WEIRD... do we end up like our parents?