Why Saudi Arabia?

          Greetings Earthlings!  This is the third season of the "Where's Moody in?" blog series.  The first was moodyineurope and the second was moodyinkorea.  The first is somewhere lost in the abandoned community of blurty, and the second can be found at moodyinkorea.BlogSpot.com.  

        Many of you have wondered: Why Saudi Arabia?  Before I get to that question, I would like to pose another question that keeps popping up in my mind: Why Blog?  It's not the 2000s anymore.  Such a practice has become outdated.  People don't want to read a few paragraphs of something on someone's mind.  They just want to read a tweet, comment on someone's picture, or give a single click to express approval and/or show solidarity.  Besides how long do people actually keep blogs?  A week, a month?  However long it takes to realize that pictures can be posted faster and viewed by more people on facebook?  How is that going to even fit on a smartphone?

      Why not?  Some people have asked me to, some people might have enough free time to consider checking it, and some people might get something out of it and learn something new that they wouldn't otherwise.  By "some people," I mean probably myself and maybe another one or two individuals.  It's like being in a rock band in high school, and your only audience member is one of the band member's girlfriend and the sound guy.  Yet the energy of the act is not a result of whatever publicity efforts were either inadequate or in vain.  The power lies in the performance.

      So back to the original question: Why Saudi Arabia?   I think I have to give a similar answer.  I had an opportunity to live and work here, and there were more reasons to do it than not do it.  Part of me wanted to save money, part of me wanted college teaching experience, part of me wanted to learn a different language and culture, and these parts of me were ultimately more persuasive than the parts of me that wanted to do something different.  Maybe my work here will not really resonate with the rest of my years as a human with only a short time on this planet.  Maybe my career will not advance the way I hope it to. 

      But my purpose here is to perform.... to learn and act in a different part of the world that I would have never considered coming to several years ago....to grow as a person who has always liked to create and share with others.  And if you don't like it, you can do whatever you want but it's not going to get to me seeing that it is I am on the other side of the globe...

Wow this has taken longer to write than I hope it has been for you to read.

More adventures ahead!  We're going to party like it's 2005

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