Asian Intentions

Three weeks in China makes me think
about what i've been doing these past
fourteen years. Waiting for fortune,
Karma, or chance to shine upon me.
What i do with this opportunity will
define me, or redefine me. Either way...

Will i find adventure in the few hours
I will have to myself? Will I document
this momentus occasion in my life?
Or will i merely do my job, drink the
local brew, and drift off to sleep as
I've become so accustomed to doing?

So many choices to make, and a job to do
make them ever harder. I will not waste
the chance to learn, to see, to feel, to
experience new places, new people, new life.
This is a turning point in my life and if
I don't take advantage, I simply lose.

Opportunity only knocks once -- every ten years
or so. Who would i be to ignore it? Who am I
to ignore the beauty of a situation? I am not.
I am proud and I will turn the corner, onto the
road paved with my true intentions. The intentions
that I have been avoiding for far too long.

Life is odd. And so am I. And so is this.