On generosity, snakes/hats and possibly dirty sheets...
On generosity, snakes/hats and possibly dirty sheets... Hi there!! I had planned for this post to be about parenting, but some things that have happened recently made me change my mind at the last minute. So, today I will be reflecting on generosity. A few weeks ago, this very popular quote came up on my Instagram feed: “You don’t see the world as it is, but as you are”. What a cliché, right? And yet, how true those words are!! My mother and I have been Airbnb hosts for about five or six years now. Our apartment is pretty big and since it is spread over two floors, it was quite simple to turn it into a duplex of sorts. Plus, with our neighborhood having undergone a dramatic “makeover” in recent years, our location effortlessly became ideal for hosting Mexico City visitors. It’s been a smooth road for the most part, with rocky patches here and there. As one fellow host said during an Airbnb get-together I was invited to, “In all fairness, the vast majo
