When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country。 I make up for lost time when I come home.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
Writing is a way of connecting with the world.