Enfin, il y avait les voyages : congrès, séminaires, colloques,
partout dans le monde. Il achetait un guide du pays, Florence
lui préparait sa valise. Il partait au volant de sa voiture qu'il
était supposé laisser au parking de Genève-Cointrin. Dans une
chambre d'hôtel moderne, souvent près de l'aéroport, il ôtait ses
chaussures, s'allongeait sur le lit et restait trois, quatre jours à
regarder la télévision, les avions qui derrière la vitre décollaient
et atterrissaient. Il étudiait le guide touristique pour ne pas se
tromper dans les récits qu'il ferait à son retour. Chaque jour, il
téléphonait aux siens pour dire l'heure qu'il était et le temps
qu'il faisait à São Paulo ou Tokyo. Il demandait si tout se
passait bien en son absence. Il disait à sa femme, à ses enfants,
à ses parents qu'ils lui manquaient, qu'il pensait à eux, qu'il les
embrassait fort. Il n'appelait personne d'autre : qui aurait-il
appelé ? Au bout de quelques jours, il rentrait avec des cadeaux
achetés dans une boutique de l'aéroport. On lui faisait fête. Il
était fatigué à cause du décalage horaire.
Parents don’t make any sense. My dad works to save people, but he can’t even stop smoking. My parents send Joey to rehab, but my mother can’t sleep without a pill.
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Rita Skeeter’s ArticleHarry Potter
In the meantime, life became even worse for Harry within the confines of the castle, for Rita Skeeter had published her piece about the Triwizard Tournament, and it had turned out to be not so much a report on the tournament as a highly colored life story of Harry. Much of the front page had been given over to a picture of Harry; the article (continuing on pages two, six, and seven) had been all about Harry, the names of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang champions (misspelled) had been squashed into the last line of the article, and Cedric hadn’t been mentioned at all.
The article had appeared ten days ago, and Harry still got a sick, burning feeling of shame in his stomach every time he thought about it. Rita Skeeter had reported him saying an awful lot of things that he couldn’t remember ever saying in his life, let alone in that broom cupboard.
I suppose I get my strength from my parents. I know they’d be very proud of me if they could see me now. . . . Yes, sometimes at night I still cry about them, I’m not ashamed to admit it. . . . I know nothing will hurt me during the tournament, because they’re watching over me. . . .
But Rita Skeeter had gone even further than transforming his “er’s” into long, sickly sentences: She had interviewed other people about him too.
Harry has at last found love at Hogwarts. His close friend, Colin Creevey, says that Harry is rarely seen out of the company of one Hermione Granger, a stunningly pretty Muggle-born girl who, like Harry, is one of the top students in the school.
Of course, if you...if you don't want to," he says into the silence, sliding his gaze away from me, "I can accept that. I won't bring it up again. I know I'm not....I know what I'm like. That I'm infuriating. And selfish. And cruel. I know I'm not perfect the way my brother is, and I manage to disappoint my parents every time. It's okay if you don't choose me, really—I never expected to be the first choice. I wouldn't blame you‚—"
"I do choose you."
He doesn't seem to hear me at first. He's still talking, rambling really, the words flowing out like rainwater. "I can't always say pretty things, and sometimes I tease you when really I just want you to look my way, and—wait." He stops. Even his breath freezes in his throat. "What...did you just say? Say it again."
"I choose you," I say quietly, glad for the shadows concealing my flushed cheeks. For the support of the wall behind me.
"You will always be my first choice, Julius Gong.
He thought of what he would have to tell his parents, and for the first time realized the finality of his decision, and almost wished that he could recall it. He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned. He grieved for his own loss and for that of his parents, and even in his grief felt himself
drawing away from them.
Culture acts on our well-being via all manner of biopsychosocial social pathways, including epigenetic causes; stress-induced inflammation; impairment of telomeres and premature aging; how and what we eat; toxins we ingest or inhale. It exerts its influences through many other outside-in mechanisms, too: through effects passed on from parents to children; from one person to another; from social, political, and economic conditions to individual bodies -"from society to cell," in the words of the molecular scientist and researcher Michael Kobor.
