I've found that unless people experience it themselves, they don't understand it. Now "it" can be hunger, poverty, despair, severe illness, loss of a spouse, child, parent, beloved pet (which is the worst).
For example, I spent six months in Belem, Brazil in the Amazon. That city, people, culture, and climate are as different from the USA as can be. I try to explain it to Americans, but it's hopeless.
Landing in a bush plane on a runway in the jungle with a 3% room for error is a thrill you have to experience yourself. I imagine it's similar to landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier at night.
You haven't really been kissed until you've been kissed by a Belemese woman. You haven't seen any real dancing either.
And until you've had daily dysentery for six months, you won't understand the cramps, sweat, and pain and then relief when it ends while sitting on the shitter in the jungle as a huge tarantula crawls across the ceiling. It is a great way to lose weight. I lost 30 pounds (188lbs to 158lbs and I'm 6'1".)
I've found that unless people experience it themselves, they don't understand it. Now "it" can be hunger, poverty, despair, severe illness, loss of a spouse, child, parent, beloved pet (which is the worst).
For example, I spent six months in Belem, Brazil in the Amazon. That city, people, culture, and climate are as different from the USA as can be. I try to explain it to Americans, but it's hopeless.
Landing in a bush plane on a runway in the jungle with a 3% room for error is a thrill you have to experience yourself. I imagine it's similar to landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier at night.
You haven't really been kissed until you've been kissed by a Belemese woman. You haven't seen any real dancing either.
And until you've had daily dysentery for six months, you won't understand the cramps, sweat, and pain and then relief when it ends while sitting on the shitter in the jungle as a huge tarantula crawls across the ceiling. It is a great way to lose weight. I lost 30 pounds (188lbs to 158lbs and I'm 6'1".)
"Landing in a bush plane on a runway in the jungle with a 3% room for error is a thrill you have to experience yourself." - ummmm...no I don't!
But I could be interested in that Belemese kiss...
BW: Both experiences make you pucker up.