Happy birthday
Madi!
Very often I
think that we could not be any different, my sister and I, given that she has
been so resilient, serious, helping people get better as a doctor of medicine,
while her brother wastes his time – as his spouse keeps highlighting – with bogus
activities such as scribbling for no good purpose, on a daily basis, without
any impact whatsoever – granted, instead of arguing with the spouse, it is probably
better to vent frustrations, envy and whatever here…
Speaking of
envy…this might have been a feeling directed at the sister that has done so
much better, as a resident of Chicago, mother of a boy that loves and agrees
with her – mostly, I guess – in a marriage that cannot be as conflictual as the
one we have –still? – here, in a job that by definition offers meaning, a sense
of fulfilment and achievement, even when surely there are patients that make
one lose temper, patience and so much more…probably…no, surely.
This has
been the case until recently, envy being a strong word and not appropriate for
apart from the aforementioned, we can and do envisage how difficult it is to
answer calls in the middle of the night, be on duty on holidays, nights when
the undersigned is sleeping with the phone shut down.
Indeed, the
history of Coming to America is the story of such a difficult quest and journey
as to make it seem like Dante’s Purgatory, with that goddamn scoundrel who had
stolen money from her and Johnny – together with a few other doctors – when he
made them work for months – was it a whole year? – And at the end just said
that he would not pay anything!
If we look
at that saga and the years of learning, hardship, the envy that one could feel –
‘I want to live in America! Everything’s fine in America’ just like in the West
Side Story – turns into empathy, because it was so damn hard, that I am
thinking I would have never been able to come anywhere close to that effort…
In fact, I have
tried to get my own ticket to the Land of the Free (and the Orange Idiot
today), through the company I have worked with in 1996, at the time of the
Olympics and some years before that, AT&T, but I just asked a few people
and when the answer was no, I said fine…
True, now
that the bible belt, Deep South, many tens of millions of cretins have voted
with a clown and a crook, the United States do not seem all that attractive anymore,
although Madi lives in a blue state, Alhamdulillah, and she is not a supporter,
on the contrary, she is also upset by the leader they have…
On that
level, this country here is many times better, although considerably poorer and
decades behind America in so many ways, we have a president, Johannis that is worth
more than 100 trumps…
This was
not exactly the gratitude letter intended in the opening, but that is how this
brain tends to work – or to quote the spouse, the way it malfunctions permanently
– and digressing from one to the other, trump has to be touched in passing at
least, because he seems to be the most abhorrent mystery of the age – how is it
possible for the Modern World to have such a creature in charge…
Happy birthday
Madi and I hope you survive another four years, if the fans of the buffoon
reelect him next year…
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