You'd think that someone who has moved once across Canada and then again across the Atlantic Ocean in under three years would at least be aware of the self-evident wisdom I'm about to vomit here, but APPARENTLY NO. It took bouncing out of bed this morning and thinking, "Hurray, a new day!" and running through a mental list of all the pleasurable
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i believe that place CAN be - well, almost enough (in so much as there is ever 'enough') but that the measure of a place is in its mundanity...it is precisely those qualities of newness, exoticism, adventure which totally mislead. i mean, those are all well and good for the short term, but when they recede a bit, what's left?
i feel like i have been trying to explain this over and over to a handful of people lately, who have been really supportive of my moving overseas, but not for what i see as the 'right' reasons. to them its this opportunity for adventure and i feel like - weird as this might sound - that element is so far down my list of reasons! and what looks like exoticism and adventure to them doesn't look that way to me. and really, i suppose i just don't want exoticism, i just want to be happy.
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we should not get E.
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