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RE: 👩🌾 Slo-Mo Gardening & 🛃 A Brief Illegal Entry Into Thailand
What an amazing juxtaposition of the innocent water gif (agree, it's pretty cool too), and the story about the machine guns on the border, and guards inviting each other over, not to mention civilians including a foreigner!!! How bizarre!
Only yesterday I was strolling through the city and I happened to pass by the Berlin wall memorial, with pieces of it left standing, others indicated by steel rods you could walk between, while most of it is kept in memory by a line drawn on the pavement, running across the city. But at the memorial site they had photos and brief life summaries of the people who were murdered trying to cross.
Yes, I am back in Germany. The reason has to do with precisely the same kind of heavily guarded border, namely that of the United States, which I am trying to cross - preferably more than just once a year. A long story, but I feel it is the same story so many of us share, including you.
It was a strange experience, and I was surprised because usually the Thai police and soldiers take their jobs more seriously than their Cambodian counterparts. Their little outpost was much cleaner and their grass manicured professionally. Also they had their berets on perfectly, their boots laced tight, and even their shirts tucked in, so it was doubly entertaining to see them laughing and talking about us, not at all concerned we had entered illegally and were basically just loitering and exchanging stories for 30 minutes.
Funny you mention Berlin, one of the Cambodian guards had lived in South Korea many years, and he compared the difference when crossing over like going from North Korea to South Korea. I haven't seen a modern 4-lane highway and high-voltage power lines for ages. Well, like you, we hope to one day cross the USA border when it's legal and possible for us all to go as a family united. If it's never possible, at least we have carved out an interesting life here in Cambodia.
That's right: may the day come sooner rather than later, when we can cross borders between countries like how we cross between time zones. Not only that, but being able to stay on whichever side for as long as we want, work or study what we want, marry who we want, and in general live our life the way we want, all over the world.
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