My Friend from Tanzania

I was so excited today to make it to my destination. I was driving to the city for the third time in 3 days, trying to learn what I was going to do about the weather. We always try to get there on time, so that is why the lines were so long: it was rush hour traffic! We were feeling so sorry because of the loss of my cousin. We had to bring his mother with us, which was funny.

When we got there we were rushed to the top through a 3-D polygraphic projection that routed the workers from the original architectural construction sites. Pictures that took us to the top were apparently, just like the bigger picture of world leadership. We stopped at Jerusalem restaurant for parking and took the 3 blocks, 20 minute, grueling walk and 89 flight escalator ride to see the experiential view from the Empire State Building.

After getting our refunds from some other excursion, we made it back to the city the next day and sat with the attachés wife from Tanzania; she was very accommodating. My friend is leaving in just a few weeks now, but his visa has already expired. So he has to finish his stay under an extended visit on holiday during the time we plan to see the ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ if I don’t opt for the ‘Lion King’ instead, and are sad to say we missed ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ However, there is a new show out called ‘The Greatest Showman’ which has a leader feminist role. She looks like a man. But when the show starts everyone sits and they see how hard her life has been, for instance, with working under men in the show business.

It is a problem we all suffer with, especially when we are serious about what we do. Men tend to advocate without really adding or helping and it’s especially hard when there still exist structural internal issues. The issues we’re working on don’t actually reach their pinnacle point of explanation before they are exploited. It has gone on since at least 2008, under the Bush administration... His files got lost just before a speech, and accidents like that just got worse over time.

The catchy quote, “Until the tale of the lion gets told, it will always tell of the hunt,” really resonates when we have time to work on our selves with dignity. It means, to me, that we have to be patient, have morals, and uphold them in such a way that our ends lend themselves to more solution, not just a fun time and quality chit-chat. When I was going off the beaten road, to the Connecticut protest against “Kids in Cages”, I was impressed by the differences between them and New Yorkers, namely, their ways of telling their stories. It’s so much easier to just opt for what is less patronizing, but if we come together, we may actually be able to learn how to use our virtues and vices to make a better, stronger collective. To get to the heart of the truth without dragging others down to do so, there are easier ways to go about talk than delays.

On the other side, to solve something so self-racketing like migrant issues, where we’ve been told there is no other way but to use force, we may be able to find solutions. For instance, when I was working at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as an intern, I was told there were not enough talking points about a work from New York, mostly because of the interest I reflected as I gazed at it. But after discussing it more with my roommates, I found out that not only did their schools either not afford supplies and suffer the consequences or have rote teachers, but they also had suffered severe boredom in the classroom, which is what the topic concerned, but not necessarily why it was shown: I had to talk to the curators, the collectors, and everyone else about the painting to make sure we were heard. The work is called Anonymous by a New York Puerto-african teacher who taught in the impoverished Bronx, so it was right where my expertise flourished. Not by holding off, but by really using my awareness.

Like the attaché who opened up his home, sometimes leading people to more milk and honey can get tiring but we have to adjust as much as the job requires, to show people how to bend the rules in their favor. And that is what you do when you really care. Because it’s rudimentary values we learn that often save us from the biggest pitfalls in our routines. When you schedule things you’re either thinking in advance or you’re jumping ahead of the meeting. And eventually, we all find out. I don’t always go out to the most populated tourist sites but when I do I tend to attract a big crowd... which is why I watch how I treat people even if it requires double or triple checking the work.

Sometimes, especially when things are chaotic, crowded, or coming to a close, people leave out the most thought-provoking information. It is such a downfall to find out, for example, that an artwork you thought would move the public was not considered as fully as it should be. It was great to tell my guest some stories while we travelled together. He had a great laugh about the oddities of American people, our clumsiness, and hard worked efforts. When men and women don’t work together crazy things happen; shoes fly, people don’t shut up. They get their teeth clammed and can’t proceed. But it’s all the more easier to stand up for what you believe in when you see it, by making amends as lightheartedly as you can.

You can mess up. Sometimes I give too much praise, and that leads up. Sometimes I am too shallow so I have to go back to point A. Mostly, I have shown myself to be the most helpful when it comes to time management, even if it meant being physically behind. We all need to take a breather; it’s like waiting all day for a your shipment only to find out that you’ve been adjusted just a hair in the nick of time.