Where to start?
Well, this is Bob Hewitt here...
Today I joined the Chiefsource staff and pending good behavior, you will be seeing me quite frequently here. To start off, I'd like to share with you a story, something that happened to me just 2 days ago.
As many of you know, I have been living in a small mountain city in the Southeast of Brazil for a while. The other night I was invited to sit down for drinks with a Brazilian family who had lived in Michigan in the 80s. One of the things that the Dad said stuck with me. ยด
(Now, keep in mind that this is a rough translation.)
Squeezing my shoulder he said: "Why do you guys think that you have a monopoly on liberty? I lived in Michigan...the bars close at 2:30am and you can't buy beer on Sunday. You call that freedom?!"
All jokes aside, it is interesting our perception of 'our' freedoms vs. 'their' freedoms. Before I moved here, I was washing dishes at Boston Market to save some quick cash (glamorous, I know) and I'll never forget a conversation that I had with one of the girls working there. After I told her that I was moving abroad I asked if she'd ever consider it.
Her response was: "I'd like to know other cultures and stuff, but I just don't know if I'd be willing to give up all my freedoms."
(sigh)
Today I joined the Chiefsource staff and pending good behavior, you will be seeing me quite frequently here. To start off, I'd like to share with you a story, something that happened to me just 2 days ago.
As many of you know, I have been living in a small mountain city in the Southeast of Brazil for a while. The other night I was invited to sit down for drinks with a Brazilian family who had lived in Michigan in the 80s. One of the things that the Dad said stuck with me. ยด
(Now, keep in mind that this is a rough translation.)
Squeezing my shoulder he said: "Why do you guys think that you have a monopoly on liberty? I lived in Michigan...the bars close at 2:30am and you can't buy beer on Sunday. You call that freedom?!"
All jokes aside, it is interesting our perception of 'our' freedoms vs. 'their' freedoms. Before I moved here, I was washing dishes at Boston Market to save some quick cash (glamorous, I know) and I'll never forget a conversation that I had with one of the girls working there. After I told her that I was moving abroad I asked if she'd ever consider it.
Her response was: "I'd like to know other cultures and stuff, but I just don't know if I'd be willing to give up all my freedoms."
(sigh)
By Robert - 12/29/2004
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