About five months after my return to living in the states a friend who also lived abroad with me and I shared a funny observation. We noticed that in the states, whenever anyone asked "What do you do?", the expected response was once about one's job or school enrollment status. What one actually did day to day, the literal meaning of the question, was considered a strange misinterpretation of the question. As a fun exercise, we decided to write down how we would respond to the literal question. My response came out in a series of haikus.
"What do you do?"
I wake up each day,
in a zombie human state,
grateful, tired, here
I go through motions,
trying to love and to serve,
Each person I see,
I do fail daily,
But I also try daily,
That's good for right now.
--Gertrude Rose
Personal Journal
5/12/2013
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