by
Jason Kersten
When
I told an aquaintence that I was taking a trip to Borneo, she immediately
assaulted me with the "musts." You must go to Kuching. You must stay overnight
in a longhouse. You must visit the Mulu Caves in Sarawak. You must, you
must...
I am always suspicious
of the must people. Their intentions are usually good, but beneath their
friendly prods is always this obsession with getting you to do exactly
what they did. My theory is that they all want to vicariously relive their
own experiences through you. They must be some kind of cult.
So I didn't take her
imperatives too seriously, especially when she mentioned Sarawak's Mulu
Caves. In fact, I thought she was joking, because she knew I was claustrophobic.
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