Extract from Taipei’s Journal
The Tai Chi teacher is just another angel looking upon my shoulder. It’s something in her eyes. She’s the follower, I’m the leader, but it never lasts too long. It’s a mirror for this life. “What if it is seduction? What if it is manipulation?”, I ask. To which she answers: “But every relationship is like this, no? Think about geopolitics. That’s what we’re doing. All the fucking time.” The package finally made it. It’s a miracle, given that I had lost the tracking number three times. I asked my friend to remove the postal card from the letter that just arrived in Amsterdam. I was too afraid it might seem like I was encouraging someone to come around. On the back cover of a flat picture of Tawain, I wrote: “You would love it there”, although, truthfully, these were the words traveling in my mind: “Greetings from afar, wishing you good and beyond, I have been thinking of you, sometimes it made me sick to my stomach, thinking of the places I know so well where I assume you’ll be at, I am trying to resist stirring up the past… I hope it works out!”
Liu’s a petrol station where I just stop by from time to time to tell my stories. I don’t have a driving license, so most likely he’s more of a 7/11, or at worst, a Hi-life. I’m a pigeon. I go back and forth, but it’s never really sure if I’ll ever come back. When he draws the signs and posts them on Instagram, it slightly creeps me out. But he’s hot, so I tolerate it… Is this a pretty privilege? Or what? While looking at the foggy and rainy view of Taiwan, I shake the dice strongly within my hands carefully asking the energies and spirits, "Please let me know how important it is that I try." I roll the dice and gradually open my eyes, revealing the sixth number. Fiction and fortune telling, iced teeth and soft cancer vibes… Is this the manifestation I’ve been bragging about? I can’t tell yet. Only the future can tell. I felt compelled to search for a path. If what I'm currently pursuing isn't it, then… I must persist in seeking until I find one.
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