Yes, exactly. It is taxing on the body, and sometimes even the mind, but with the benefits one receives it is hard to complain too much.
(I think of my friend, Q, who I had dinner with last night. He was a refugee from the Syrian Civil War and is now settled in Belgium. The stories of what he had to go through to get here are quite extraordinary)
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Date: 2019-10-09 07:22 am (UTC)(I think of my friend, Q, who I had dinner with last night. He was a refugee from the Syrian Civil War and is now settled in Belgium. The stories of what he had to go through to get here are quite extraordinary)