Prizefight: Write Like David Sedaris and Win His New Book {Asylum}

Jun 11th 2008 5:24PM As an Easterner gone West, (in the white collar caste), I've obtained a bird's eye view of many a chaos.

In the white collar circle (as the years roll), I've found the men searching and detaching, the women vasilating from egocentric to extremely altruistic and the aging mini me's all ego and aura.

The wives of the east are now buying apples by the barrel hoping an apple a day keeps the doctor away and the children are demanding that a two bedroom, two bath home await them in the college town of their Jesuit choice.

The wives of the west, are learning about chakras, with their naive children, the hopeful artists & Olympic athletes, who excel in every activity they can pedal their holistic coolies to, the world plentiful, an oyster bed.

But like a capybara who has tripped into the Amazon, the dreamers of the Western pride eventually meet the schemers or pirhana of the Eastern pride, and they dance, the West drawn into the manipulative ways of the edgier Eastern privledged circles.

I have hope, thanks to Pandora, we live amongst smart people with hearty good wishes, we may all step out of the ego at some point- giving more of ourselves instead of fine tuning the image and shape of the brow.

For sport, I remain the spectator, as "all the world is indeed a stage". Watching the archetypes swish and sway, different facets illuminating, different paths skipped upon....

L'Chayim