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thoughts from an extra ordinary suburb
they told me that re-entry shock was a thing, and i brushed it off. me? i was ready to return home, see my family for the first time in four months, step on american soil, eat a good burger. i knew exactly what i wanted to do.
and now, i sit here, changed and unchanged. i am back in “my world.” i take classes that i hate and work a job that bores me. i escape into the fictional worlds of video games and books. i live inside a screen. i see the same faces and hear the same things and everything is all the same color and hue. how extra ordinary.
and then there are the moments. i’ll be sitting here, reading a story for my fiction writing workshop and i’ll see burma at five in the morning when the sky is the color of molasses with no light pollution, or tokyo on a rainy afternoon, or the busy streets of beijing. i’m back in barcelona buying sunglasses, or cape town, standing at the top of table mountain, laughing with my roommate who had spent the entire hike vomiting up last night’s party. i see india in all its life and wonder if it ever gets grey there--the red soil, warm skin, the impossibly bright smiles. i see the ocean and feel it rock me to sleep and wonder how in the world i got that opportunity, how i can manage to stay here, restless but sedentary and not traveling, seeing new things, meeting new people, feeling full and wondrous and happy.
they told me that re-entry shock was a thing, and i didn’t believe them until i was homesick for the world.
Ghana is considering to enact a law that will have LGBTQ+ people arrested or detained while being ridiculed by the public. Let’s help them by signing this petition. Thank you to anyone who participates.
http://chng.it/gcRwyqdwgq
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