When you're laying in bed all week with a herniated/bulging disc, barely able to move whatsoever. It gives you time to do other things like "think too much"...but also, interesting stuff like read, meditate and listen to the interesting world of China going on outside my apartment.
In the reading department I have very little in the way of English books to call on but one of my work mates loaned me a book she had at home called "Wolf Totem" by Jiang Rong. It's very, very interesting. I've scanned through my Lonely Planet China, caught up on some history of the different Dynasties and absorbed inspirational quotes from Buddhism etc.
My friends and work colleagues seem to have taken it on themselves to work in a roster like situation of home cooking me meals so I don't starve and bringing me fruit, books, dvd's etc. So kind of them because in situations like this, can be very easy to feel alone and far away from the comfort of what you know.
I'm very lucky. I guess these are the type of times that you look and see that with the negatives come the positives.
"It is the enemy who can truely teach us to practise the virtues of compassion and tolerence"
His Holiness The 14th Dali Lama
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