<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=487434" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eating Alone In A Chinese Restaurant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">all my life i never imagine myself eating alone.<br>there is something detestable i think when a person eats alone.<br>either he is selfish to have to share a conversation with someone else<br>or that he is shutting himself away from this world where each must belong<br>to someone else, lest one can be branded as another scrooge<br>before Christmas, a misanthrope, a man who has no capacity to relate to<br>another human being, or even with a pet dog, or cat, to join him eating<br>in a restaurant. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i have seen some who eat alone in a Chinese restaurant, their eyes fixed on<br>the other customers eating alone too, sipping the bird's nest soup with the sound of a pig or a big bird, as though eating alone becomes a socially<br>acceptable action. I do not bother asking them, why they eat alone and look<br>stupid with their lonely eyes, falling faces, less hair, and protruding teeth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then i start to eat alone by myself. I look at the passers-by one rainy day<br>through the glass window of the restaurant. I enjoy the noodles and the <br>sweet sour pork and the bottomless red tea and the jasmine rice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i tell you, it did not take that long really to learn to live my life alone.<br>after you left me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is this eating alone in a Chinese restaurant which taught me. And now i am beginning to like it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sans love. Sans anybody.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=487434" data-title="Eating Alone In A Chinese Restaurant de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="all my life i never imagine myself eating alone. there is something detestable i think when a person eats alone. either he is selfish to have to share a conversation with someone else or that he is shutting himself away from this world where each ..."></div> </div> </div>

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