Stranger in a strange land. Overly dramatic. Not such a strange land. You can still buy coffee at the green store, hamburgers at the yellow store, t-shirts at the red store, and you can't swing a cat in any of them without hitting a girl in a black North Face coat. It is oddly the same and yet foreign to me. I'm free of things that stressed me before and striving to find new stressors to fill the empty space. Old dogs and new tricks. If tough to re-learn, re-form, re-create your life. Habits.
Positive: While still forced by the vagaries of 21st century economy to toil for wages in the employ of another, I no longer have to endure the destructive, idiotic dance of the the morning commute. The problem of people endangering their lives and those of others is still a problem across the world, but it is no longer my problems (short of one traffic light). This morning, I only needed eyelashes to clear the fluffy, floating flakes and not scrapers and wipers to fight the freezing fractals.
Positive: While still forced by the vagaries of 21st century economy to toil for wages in the employ of another, I no longer have to endure the destructive, idiotic dance of the the morning commute. The problem of people endangering their lives and those of others is still a problem across the world, but it is no longer my problems (short of one traffic light). This morning, I only needed eyelashes to clear the fluffy, floating flakes and not scrapers and wipers to fight the freezing fractals.