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‘You write?’ I asked opening my laptop.
She turned her head to my direction from her bed on the opposite side of the room and replied ‘Yes.’
‘Where?’ I was curious.
‘Somewhere you don’t look for.’ She seemed uninterested.
But I had to know.
‘On the internet?’ I continued.
‘Why does it matter?’
‘Everything does for curious souls’ I replied tapping away on my keyboard.
The next few minutes passed in silence.
A week ago I had a sudden surge of development optimism. It happened amidst our class discussions on what is wrong with poverty lines and micro credit. My argument was if the credit market doesn’t exist for people below poverty lines anyway what is wrong with MC creating it? At least some people are benefiting from it aren’t they? I surprised myself by even thinking along those lines. It’s been long since I lost faith in development as is practiced I felt as though I were was going back to the old days of development optimism, the innocent ‘I’ll change the world’ attitude. Yah, it seems so innocent when I think of those early enthusiastic dev days. Now it seems like it was only a fleeting thought.
