VERB
1. To have a good time with people.
Everyday, I walk from Point A to Point B, without half a glance at the in-between. Focused, driven, efficient. Tasks to-do and tasks completed. Organized in my head like check-lists. Done by this deadline.
But when I pass by people who are "nhau-ing," I see their bright red faces radiant with sun-like joy. They share their food and their drinks. They share their day-to-day, their experiences, their work, their love lives, their families, their past, their future, their reflections, spewing in one necessary session to release themselves. Stress and problems and cares are left until the next day. For today, they cheer with glasses, cups, cans, bottles, all raised up into the air, for things shared and for things forgotten. They cheer with anything because it really doesn't matter the form of container or the type of liquid. Moments are immortalized in times like this: times with friends, times with family, times with people.
In good company,
time
freezes.
2. To drink.
I'm the hero of the Party Poopers, a legitimate reason for them to go home. I'm the customer of the Baby Sitters, another reason for them to stay in business.
They call me the "one shot wonder." I'm a wonder...with one gulp of the invisible, my mind immediately blurs...and I wonder why it happens to no one else. I become red with scorching heat. I'm red with blood pulsating through my body. I'm red with an extra dose of emotions racing through my veins. I become red with silence. I'm red with sleep.
I'm a wonder, and I wonder why the molten liquid that is thoroughly enjoyed by most, even addictive to some, can burn my flesh so. I'm red with envy because the activity that bonds so many together in a communal state of inhibition and carelessness makes me puke.
Drinking or "nhau-ing"-- Everyone does it. It scares me. It isolates me.
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