Jaded - Blog 7

I am very jaded pertaining to pretty much anything Chinese. Having grown up primarily in China, an amazing and unique tourist attraction that people come from miles around to see to me became rather commonplace and mundane.

I have been to the Great Wall at least 15 times and it really does not get any more exciting with each visit. It actually became a huge chore to bother going downtown into Beijing to see some "interesting" temple. You've seen one Buddhist temple you've seem 'em all. That's my motto.

I think probably another reason for this was my automatic aversion towards doing anything my parents wanted me to do. Because they were the one's with the initiative to go to any of these places, my initiative was to do anything but be forced to accompany them.

This isn't to say I don't find certain places extremely fascinating. But the Great Wall, Buddhist temples, and the Forbidden City... Pretty much dead to me.

Yep. That's me in the background. This is at the Qing tombs when our parents wouldn't take us home after wasting far too much of our day at this tourist trap.