“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friday, January 25, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Days like today- after a weekend of fullblown American suburbia - I wonnder why I even blog at all. And that's such a trite question, found on so many hundreds of blogs I'm sure... I hate trite questions. Except maybe when they lead to original answers, none of which I'm guaranteeing here. Only to say that I mentioned this weekend of movies, food, and hanging out to a friend, and said that at times I wonder what it would have been like if I had been raised by my aunt... if I had grown up in her safe, warm southern community... if my all-American cousins had been my brothers and I had been an all-American girl....
I mentioned some of that to my friend, who asked then, point blank, if I'd 'missed much?'
I tried to get her to rephrase the question. But the answer was pretty straight-forward when we got down to it - yes and no. I regret nothing. I'm proud as well as grateful that I grew up overseas, in my own globetrotting home, and that I can enjoy my all-American family and friends and not feel a need to join them.
And yet I would have been a highly different person, so in some vague way I do miss that. I would have developed different talents - physically, socially, mentally, spiritually. Would have had different experiences, known and befriended different people. Maybe by now I would be dating someone or - like some of my friends here - be engaged or married. Maybe I'd have found a job that I loved and been firmly entrenched in some organisation or off in my own studio with writing or photography. I would probably not have typed 'organisation' with the British 's', I would have written it 'organization' without a second thought, because, after all, they don't want to be progressive if they don't want to be.
Anyway. No conclusions, just more questions raised by one small question in the first place. Or maybe two small questions. Seed questions growing more, and all is as it should be....
I mentioned some of that to my friend, who asked then, point blank, if I'd 'missed much?'
I tried to get her to rephrase the question. But the answer was pretty straight-forward when we got down to it - yes and no. I regret nothing. I'm proud as well as grateful that I grew up overseas, in my own globetrotting home, and that I can enjoy my all-American family and friends and not feel a need to join them.
And yet I would have been a highly different person, so in some vague way I do miss that. I would have developed different talents - physically, socially, mentally, spiritually. Would have had different experiences, known and befriended different people. Maybe by now I would be dating someone or - like some of my friends here - be engaged or married. Maybe I'd have found a job that I loved and been firmly entrenched in some organisation or off in my own studio with writing or photography. I would probably not have typed 'organisation' with the British 's', I would have written it 'organization' without a second thought, because, after all, they don't want to be progressive if they don't want to be.
Anyway. No conclusions, just more questions raised by one small question in the first place. Or maybe two small questions. Seed questions growing more, and all is as it should be....
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