The best-laid plans
Sometimes, I am full of ideas and plans, and I feel like I can do so much to make my life better, to make other people’s lives and / or jobs much better. On mornings like this, I feel my ideas have so much potential.
In reality, my ideas have a lot of potential, but idea theft (more kindly, idea co-option) runs rampant, and in China, no one believes an ethnic Chinese woman could possibly have original ideas and potential, runs on pure motivation, and is doing something to participate and contribute to society, where earning an income is more than welcome, but is not the driving force.
These past several months can be summarised in the two paragraphs above, freshly typed. I would elaborate, but I have a meeting to get to.