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Date: November 10, 2024 at 08:20:58
From: Chuckles , [DNS_Address]
Subject: How To Feel Like You're An Alien On Another Planet |
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Go live remotely near a small rural
Alaskan town for a few years without
going to any large community or city
somewhere, and after three years or so,
go to one of the large cities somewhere
in the lower 48. When you get off
departing the airplane, and walk into
the large airport, it will feel like
people that walk by you are in a big
rush, vibrating really fast. You begin
to feel you just landed on a different
planet, who are these people in a big
hurry. You rent a car and get on the
freeway to go see family as many cars
are passing you at a high rate of speed
with some honking at you and cursing at
you, flipping you off. People seem like
they are so rude and mean spirited as
you turned in your rented car and are
waiting at the ferry terminal to cross
the bay. You were the first person
there, and now find your self way in
back of people as they take cuts and
make their way forward aggressively. You
say to yourself, who are these people as
you casually look at some of the people
who made their way in front of you,
vibrating so fast as if they seem
they're going to blink out before your
eye's. You pause and reflect back and
remember how you were sort of just just
these people before you left for alaska,
and thinking how easy it is to get
caught up in the this craziness and not
even realize it until you go live out in
the slow quiet lifestyle of alaska. It's
as though coming back from alaska, that
you just taken a big dose of medicine
that snaps you back awake full of
awareness.
I remember some years ago when taking a
lunch break from my gardening work at a
senior housing apartment complex, and
having lunch with the maintenance person
and his father from the mountains of
Nicaragua. His father spoke no English
as his son interpreted for him. His dad
said that are food here is bad, no good.
He then talked about when his son was
driving him on the freeway how everyone
seemed in a big rush to get somewhere,
and thought how crazy american people
seem to be. His son told me that he flew
his dad here from Nicaragua in hopes he
would stay to live close to him and his
other two brothers who fled Nicaragua
some years ago. But his dad didn't want
to stay and wanted to get back to the
mountains of Nicaragua, where he said
the way of life was much better in that
the food was much better, and nobody was
in a rush. Spending some time in Alaska
myself, I totally understood and related
on his dad's feelings.
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Date: November 18, 2024 at 16:27:48
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Feel Like You're An Alien On Another Planet |
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I was born and lived in San Diego many years ago-- San
Diego was very slow and laid back. Then I moved to
Orange county and then L.A. county in my early teens.
When I grew up and then lived in Los Angeles it never
felt like "home", having spent my earlier years in rural
and beach areas in San Diego. So every chance I got
when my kids were young, drove down to S.D. to visit
with some family-- it was so nice ansd calm there. Not
anymore! Last time I was in S California it was around
2008- crazy mad and insane. I sure miss those days.
Thats why when I left S Cali in late 1998, I only chose
smaller rural country areas. But even now, its crazy all
over. Sad times.
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