hello again

vlad, you're not talking to yourself, your post on Fri, July 5th, didn't get to be posted till today, July 9th...so that didn't leave much time for answers.

nu stiu cat de clar am exprimat aspectul asta, but the reason for this blog is - at least from my p.v. - to keep in touch because we as a group have a significant number of memories together, but NOT ONLY. I don't know about you, but i really do not enjoy socializing with people i don't have things in common with; even the inevitable differences the environment brings about among us are - to me - of the same category(ies.) proof? it still works when we get together, though i must say i speak for more than 6 months ago. Of course one gets influenced by the environment, in the same way one gets to pick a few new jokes from a new boyfriend, or enriches one's culture by reading some kick-ass book, or choosing to have a black-eyed outcome to a fight with a more wrongly chosen life partner. the point is i don't believe people change that much, not after a certain age. i might have no clue what the hottest band in Romania is at the moment, but i still know what's happening in your life - cu intreruperile de rigoare. I might forget from time to time, but i still remember your birthdays. i might be broke and anxious to visit the rest of Europe, but i'm still coming home this summer, by train. to see parents (i miss them, can you believe that?) and friends and just do .. nothing.

bottom line: i overestimated the influence the environment has on one's personality... not on the same scale of gauging - as in.. it makes you more distant, your values change, your attitude is influenced by the culture or people of the other environment, etc- but on a different dimension; i think at least in the case of NYC, it only brings adulthood much closer to my door than I am willing to settle for. ergo, i might have been the same person home, but maybe a few years from now. I might have also ended up with a dead-end job, but not having to work 46 a week and sleep 21. that is just "me", not "me and other people"; it's not the environment that really changes us, if that change ever occurs. it's what the corniest, tackiest english idiom calls "the stuff of life."

again, nu cred ca mediul is something beyond one's control when it comes to keeping in touch with people one cares about.

well, enough said; gotta go kill this sleep and hop up on a bus to work.

weather's getting better....