All you need is love!!!

Dhaka is classified as a "hardship" post. It does not take long for somebody to figure out why: seas of people, limited or no infrastructure, hit or miss medical care, contaminated water and food, so on and so on.

On the plus side (and this much I learned lately, there is always a plus side), there are things here that make your life easier. The main one? The affordable domestic labor. 
But this week, we came to learn how totally dependent we became on household staff, and how completely our world can fall apart without them.

Our beloved housekeeper found out she is now part of a love triangle and she would like to go back to the village to patch things up with the soon to be husband. We gladly accepted a leave request for a month. After all, what doesn't a man do for love, even if is not his? But quickly realized how used to her we are. We will have to hire someone else part-time in the interim, until the love of her life gets reeled back in.

So we have this circle of dependence in our lives. There are days where we would imagine ourselves back in Michigan, where we could drive everywhere ourselves, drink and wash our vegetables in the tap water and the floor would not need constant moping for the ever present dust.