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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Monday December 15, @10:34AM
I have lived for a period of at least 1 year in England, Scotland, France(19 years), Germany (total of 3 years), Russia (3 years), Gibraltar (5 years), and for lesser periods in Bosnia, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and Iraq.
I lived in England until I was 22, but I have now lived in my current home in France since 2007. Moving home is always stressful.
It gets harder to learn a new foreign language with each passing year but I have at various times spoken reasonably fluent French, German, Russian and Serbo-Croat (as the language was called at that time). There are dialects of English which are more difficult to master than some foreign languages.
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday December 15, @11:46AM (4 children)
Even if you come back later, say, to take care of an aging parent, the act of leaving your hometown (assuming you can afford it of course) will change the way you think about "normal". Because a lot of what you think of as "normal" isn't statistically normal at all, and the only reason you think it is is that you haven't seen anything else. Check out places different from where you grew up: If you lived in a city, try living out in the country at least for a few years. If you were a country kid, try out a major city and see what that's really like. If you grew up near one of the seacoasts, try the middle of the country, and vice versa.
As an added bonus, it will get you well away from your school mates whose ambitions are limited to doing a crappy job to pay the bills, staying out of prison, and getting drunk on the weekends for the next 45 years or so.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 15, @07:15PM (2 children)
If you really want to blow your perspective on reality, go back and visit your elementary school sometime. The building, the classes, and even the playground and surroundings simply don't scale with memory. Junior high and senior high schools scale much better than your elementary school does. That huge playground that you ran across in first grade shrinks to maybe half of a baseball or football throw! And, the classrooms are downright claustrophobic!
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday December 16, @08:06AM
This is true: I have experienced it too.
I guess we have some kind of in-built scale that measures things relative to our current size. There's probably a Ph.D. dissertation in that observation somewhere, but it would be a long-term experiment.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 15, @07:10PM (1 child)
I live 19307 football fields away from where I was born - give or take a little bit. Or, as the crow flies, 16,204 football fields. Why does the crow get to take such a big shortcut?
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday December 16, @10:30AM (1 child)
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