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“But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate exception that the monosyllable nuoc reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (van nuoc) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nuoc‘ (yeu nuoc).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

Maybe You Were Meant to Have a Cold This Weekend

Things happen for a reason.

We are on a path.

Considering fate, perhaps, the cold you caught on Friday night was meant to be. Perhaps we have to re-imagine the notion of “oh no, I’m sick, my weekend is ruined.”

Perhaps, we consider it an opportunity to cozy up with a book that develops a business idea we have been entertaining, your RSS/Twitter feed that let’s you know about an e-commerce special you need to capitalize on before midnight (oh, the money you’ll save), hang out with grandma who will more likely than not, impart her wisdom on you which will be more wise and valuable than anything you may have picked up in your school years.

On that train of thought, what if you never caught that cold and you decided to go out on that Friday night? You are crossing the street and while you are checking your phone for the text message your friend just sent you about where to meet for drinks, you are hit by a car.

To wash the morbid taste out of your mouth, all in all, to quote Katy Perry:
“Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed / So you could open one that leads to the perfect road”

Every moment we live in our lives, whether we get up on our feet, or lay in bed, is an opportunity.