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Being an American in Mexico makes for a life where you are always aware of the fact that you are different. Even in the midst of discovering how alike your are. Eventually one becomes not really an American, but not a Mexican either. Drifting in a rather free spot somewhere in between. Between cultures. It is a good place, if your not looking for confines. It is good to shed what is not really you, but just a nationality, leave it behind. I think I would always choose to live where I was different, its very good.
It is true that I am like most of my neighbors, just trying to live day by day. Unlike almost every single American here, my husband nor I bring in American money thru some American source that is sent to us. Americans don’t come here to work, not unless they are high up in some company with a very American wage and a very American place to live. In the 26 years I have lived here, we have had to work for our living. This has been the great experience, hard but what made Mexico open up. Living it as the people do, the daily struggle for existence, the challenge to make it. On the inside and competing.
Being close to the edge lets you look at life closely too, there are few disguises and smoke screens. One of the better ways to make a living in Mexico, as many do, is to have many ways to do it, flexible. One can really be creative and free this way, doing what can be done at the time. It is important how we make our money, since most of us seem to have to take a lot of our time to do that. This process, making a living, should stem from what you do in life anyway enhanced to the point where it makes profit. One needs to like what they do or they are compromised. Money made from regretted effort can spoil that which it touches.
It is good to live in a country where one is free to be poor and free to enjoy it and free to choose what they like best to survive and free to be not one thing or the other. So much space.
It is true that I am like most of my neighbors, just trying to live day by day. Unlike almost every single American here, my husband nor I bring in American money thru some American source that is sent to us. Americans don’t come here to work, not unless they are high up in some company with a very American wage and a very American place to live. In the 26 years I have lived here, we have had to work for our living. This has been the great experience, hard but what made Mexico open up. Living it as the people do, the daily struggle for existence, the challenge to make it. On the inside and competing.
Being close to the edge lets you look at life closely too, there are few disguises and smoke screens. One of the better ways to make a living in Mexico, as many do, is to have many ways to do it, flexible. One can really be creative and free this way, doing what can be done at the time. It is important how we make our money, since most of us seem to have to take a lot of our time to do that. This process, making a living, should stem from what you do in life anyway enhanced to the point where it makes profit. One needs to like what they do or they are compromised. Money made from regretted effort can spoil that which it touches.
It is good to live in a country where one is free to be poor and free to enjoy it and free to choose what they like best to survive and free to be not one thing or the other. So much space.
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