Standing under understanding

Arundhati Roy said, ‘Never Complicate what is simple or simplify what is complicated’. Tonight I met with a friend of a friend who is going to share some views in the documentary I am making. In our long conversation through the help of my friend who translated, I fully realized that my life task of understanding and learning about China, it’s history, culture and future discourse, would need to be done in full, in the host country. Not that I did not know this as I plan to work here but it brought a reality I am suddenly coming to terms with. Meeting new people everyday and cycling around the city is a start to very long road. It is a bold personal undertaking I have doubts I am as of yet ready to take. One step at a time. At the moment I am content in riding my new bicycle everywhere.



- J