Tibet beginnings

So, I've had a lot of trouble writing a significant post about my travels to Tibet over the Spring Festival holiday without it sounding like some horrible list of what I did (the bane of both blogs and travel writing). At first I thought I was just lazy, secondly that I had some kind of blogger's block, but at this point I've come to the conclusion that there are just some things that it's hard or maybe even impossible for me to write about. I think that this moment of giving up is the strongest endorsement yet that I've really got no future in writing. Good writing makes us feel as though we ourselves have loved, hated, journyed, or experienced whatever it is the author wants to tell us, but if I feel I took anything from this trip it's the importnace of personal experience. I tend to think these days that it's a lack of personal experience that accounts for so many misconceptions around the world. What's worse than complete ignorance (a word that has for too many people annoyingly become synonomous with stupid)? Incomplete information whether willfully selective and misleading, as in propaganda, or unintentional, as in the case of most of us who take what we're told at face value and don't take the time to question things or look at them from a variety of informed perspectives. For example, Tibet has, in Liuyang and around China, taken on a kind of fantasy full-filling quality from its appearances in magazines and musical montages on t.v. and nobody really seems to know anything real about it. A myth, like most, built on hearsay and conjecture. Apart from the awe and wonderment that colors every image, there is also a sense of remoteness and fear of a journey. For centuries this may have been justified, but several teachers here seemed quite convinced that their heart would stop or their head might explode on arrival. Maybe the most disturbing thing is that people seem content with their myths, and will fight to the death to keep them.
So, is this a rant to excuse not writing about travelling? Maybe, but tough noogies and I'll try to do better next time.