Five Gifts for the Mind by Eran Katz

Author:Eran Katz [Katz, Eran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smart Memory Press
Published: 2014-04-22T06:00:00+00:00

Bangkok, Thailand

The Gift of Craving Management

How to Exhibit Self-Control or Liberate Yourself to Live Life Without Regrets

31

“Sukhumvit, Soi 20,” Jerome told the taxi coordinator outside Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok.

She wrote the address on official stationary and handed it to the next driver on line. It was hot and humid out. They entered the air-conditioned taxi.

Dr. Thanong Sawat, a professor at the Chulalongkon University had emailed them to say that he would be unable to meet them at the airport.

Instead he suggested they meet at the Häagen-Dazs stand on the ground floor of the Siam Paragon shopping mall.

They drove in silence.

Misun started to nod off, her head drooped and fell onto Jerome’s shoulder. He froze, fearful of waking her up if he stirred. He enjoyed the physical closeness to her. He inhaled the smell of her shampooed hair and closed his eyes. He pursed his lips and looked out the window. He felt guilty for feeling this physical closeness. They were divided by a span of twenty-five years.

He thought of his wife, Lisa.

He loved her very much, but he was in Bangkok. There is something in Bangkok that confounds men’s compasses—the one that always points to home, no matter where in the world they are located. In Bangkok the magnetic field is disrupted.

“Bangkok, oriental setting,” the famous Murray Head song rang in his head, “and the city don’t know what the city is getting.”

The most sensual city in the world. That’s why he was sent here. To learn to control his impulses or to forgive himself for shattering the morality patterns he was raised on.

'One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble,' he continued humming the song lyrics. 'One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble'

A difficult and fascinating task awaited them, he thought to himself.

***

She arrived an hour earlier and settled in the same hotel, on the same floor. Her room was next to Jerome’s. She hoped to observe firsthand what the day would beget.

She knew she was taking a risk, but she already saw her plan coming to fruition. She so wanted to meet him face to face already. Two more assignments. Just a week and a bit. She must be patient.

Any deviation from the plan would undermine everything. She had waited for years. Just a little bit longer.

She recalled Lee Han’s face on the day she told him about her imminent departure. Lee Han was angry. For two days they didn’t speak. But Lee Han was a smart man, in his heart of hearts he always knew this day would come. The day she would go on a journey to right the terrible wrongs inflicted upon her.

She told him about the plan. She remembered the compassion in his eyes.

“Let it go,” he pleaded. “Focus on the present. The future.”

“You’re wrong,” she told him. “There is no future if you haven’t shut the past. There is no future if you have left the bodies on the ground.”

She recalled the day she was taken to the grave of Mao Anying, the son of Mao Tse Tung.

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