solvable problems

Solvable Problems

I was thinking of moving to Colombia. So, a couple of years ago, I went to visit Colombia, because I had never been, and it makes sense to go somewhere you might like to move to before moving there.

And it’s lovely, by the way. Highly recommend Colombia. For visiting or living.

Anyway, I am on a tour with this Colombian guide, who among other things said to me “Tourists never usually ask me these questions.” (I was asking about voting and political parties.) And he asks me what I do.

“Oh, I’m a teacher,” I say.

“Wow! Teaching is a very important job. How do you like it?”

“A great deal, actually…it’s super rewarding. Except for the part where I can get shot at my job.”

“That has literally never happened here. I can’t even imagine it,” he tells me.

I was in Medellín. Land of infamous, highly armed drug lords. In Colombia. A country that, technically speaking, still has a skirmishy sort of civil war going with far left guerillas.

So, you know, not a land without guns and gun violence.

And yet….

“That has literally never happened here.”

Seems like a solvable problem, doesn’t it?

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