Serendipity Disguised
I went out with some friends to a bar near k-town that seemed heavily frequented by Koreans. My friends were quickly intoxicated by a lemon drop, margarita, water, and a glass of red wine, but my shot of patron silver and riesling didn’t go far enough since I’d just eaten dinner.
It’s not often that I write about my personal life on this blog, but my actions and this experience are incomprehensible even to me. Perhaps my readers will find something in the telling of the story.
My friends and I had a good time chatting away mindlessly until it was around 11:30 and then decided to settle up and leave. I took the responsibility of the tab, since it was small and half mine anyway. Here is where the strangeness begins, for I decided to accumulate more debt onto my tab.
There was a group of three young Korean women eating dinner in the corner of the lounge not far away. As they seemed to be enjoying their meal, I figured it would be fantastic to surreptitiously pay for it, imagining their simultaneous perplexity and delight. If I’d done it as an introduction, there would be a good explanation and no reason to write this post. At the time however, the sheer idiosyncrasy of the situation was compensation enough.
To the ladies whose dinner I purchased, I hope you enjoyed the rest of your night. To myself, why do you delight in the paradox?
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You lower yourself by buying strangers anything. It’s not the same as leaving a poem or a flower for a beautiful girl. It’s a show off move and not classy at all.
I think I agree–six years later. People need time to mature.
u look great…..
It gives them an interesting story to tell their boyfriends!
korean girls are raised to be charismatic and beautiful, and the life of a beautiful person at first glance is always intensely interesting. in our melancholy moods (no doubt brought upon you by the vapidness of drinking and being around drunks), we take this further. a beautiful person’s life can appear to be ideal, like the life of a character in a drama: significant and supremely fulfilling.
why is it that i would send a birthday present to a celebrity in japan, or that you would randomly pay for these korean girls? we yearn to become an important part of the illusory lives that we attribute to these girls. that being impossible, we settle for the one thing that we can do from afar: give them our wealth.
of course, i could be completely wrong! maybe these girls were unattractive to you, and in that case, you’re just weird!
Hahahaha!! You’re so weird, elliott. It probably freaked them out. Like, “whoa! who the– what??!??!” type of freak-out. lol. But it was a nice (random) gesture.