There are plenty of noble and selfless reasons why I chose to serve in the Peace Corps, but it would be an incomplete picture if I didn't include some of the more selfish ones as well. Chief among these is the desire to get away, to leave the known and familiar and predictable, to just be somewhere else for a while. A lot of that probably comes from my inherited wanderlust that I'll never lose, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that some of it also comes from just plain frustration and dissatisfaction with what it's like to live in the U.S. right now. In that (admittedly negative) spirit, I present the following list.
Six things I look forward to not missing about living in the States:
-The news cycle, and the general stupidity and shallowness of what passes for most public discourse
-Fast food, processed food, chain restaurants, and the whole industrial food complex
-Driving everywhere and the lack of quality public transit
-Getting robbed by the health care system and despairing over our inability to fix it
-Television (even the stuff I like)
I'd be curious to hear others as well.
(Before someone else points this out, I'm sure that living in Morocco will make me appreciate plenty of things that I currently take for granted about living here, and I'll be sure to note those eventually.)
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