Back home in Texas,I wouldn't live anywhere but here,thinkin bout all those night I spent so far away. But I'm back home in Texas and this is where I gonna stay
I always take time off for lent,from socials. Helps me clear my mind and ground me. I came back on here and see y'all just keep getting crazier. Politics in this day and age rots your humanity. Your moral compass shouldn't shift because a D or a R does something, and your need for factual evidence shouldn't either. Selling your soul for confirmation is wicked work
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
They think you value their opinion as much as they value it. I don't agree with all the things you say but I'm still here. You seem like good people, If my feed was all people I agreed with I wouldn't learn anything or question my own theory. Now if you weren't good people I wouldn't follow but I wouldn't announce it either lol. I could get on a soap box about tribalism wrapped up in pseudo intellectualism but no one would care or listen 😂.