Closer Than Rust
June 22nd
Vespa Tsang
June 21st. 7:15am
For the past four days -- since that hideous hate crime -- all I've been thinking about is this:
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How well do we know the people in our own communities?
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Do I know anyone as deranged as a mass murderer with a bigoted agenda?
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Could something like that happen here, and I'd turn around and say, 'Oh yeah - I know that guy. He always orders a side of mayonaise with his grits.'
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And also... do I know anyone as noble or kind as the victims seemed to be?
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It reminds me of artists who become famous posthumously... who live penniless and then the world fetishizes their works of brilliance...
#whenItsTooLate
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Hearing stories of the deceased just makes me think, I wish I'd
#known
them!
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...I want to know people
#before
any tragedy, before national news coverage brings these stories to my eyes, my heart...
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And then I started wondering... what are the stories of the people near me?
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People in this town I could know...
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And it's dawning on me... I don't really know anyone here...
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I just want to go around and ask each person in this town one question.
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Make that 10 questions. Make that 100. 1,000. Database. Archive.
#OneMillionQuestions
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"Who are you?"
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"Can you tell me something about you?"
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"What do you plant in your garden?"
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"Have you ever been in love?"
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"What are you most afraid of?"
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"What do you really think about your neighbors? About this town?"
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"Would you leave - if you could - or do you love it here?"
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"If you could make one wish... and know it would be granted... what would it be?"
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I have so many questions...
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If I could change one thing... just do
#one #thing
differently, since arriving here --
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I would ask more
#questions
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I would talk to more
#people
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I would open up...
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Who do you want to be? In the future? And who did you used to be -- but now you've moved on?
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We all shed skins like snakes, upgrade our avatars - who were you yesterday? Who will you be tomorrow?
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What would you do if you were given
#oneMillionDollars
?
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What would you
#never
do, even if you were paid?
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What's on your
#bucketList
?
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Please... tell me one thing you want to do before you die...
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I don't want to say a word -- I just want to
#listen
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Listen... and then ask more questions... and then keep on listening...
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I just want to know the people around me.
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Also -- one more thing -- I would post
#unposted #posts
more often.
#LOL
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It's so liberating... like a private journal... I want to start an internet cafe with "internet free" zones... imagine that!
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So the original goal was to get disenfranchised country folks online... well, the
#new #goal
is to get brain-fried city folks
#off #the #grid
!
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June 21st. 7:15am
In fact, I'm going to
#putThisPhoneAway
right now!
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I'm going to start asking questions
#rightNow
!
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