Had a fantastic time in Europe though. Pictures are starting to be thrown up on my Facebook, though you need to be my "friend" to see them. It wasn't just the sights for me, but a mode of rebuilding and rediscovering myself.
You see (I could rival J.K. Rowling with these frequent revisits of what my past few months have been like) after a not-so-good first half of 2011, I lost a lot of myself; and I'm really angry about that. I think I really matured in 2010, really grew from everything I was taught and experienced; but the roughness of 2011 caused me to lose much of my mindset and perhaps a bit of my sanity. I lost focus of my views on people. Needless to say, when I got to Europe, I switched my brain off; and started afresh with the people I was traveling with.
Different kinds of people. People I like. People I don't. I'd like to like them all, but that's impossible unless 1> you don't have a brain or 2> you worry about being well-liked yourself. (I'm fairly easy to please, to get along with, unless 1> you're overtly dumb, past the point of no return 2> you're really rude, meaning you're still rude after people tell you you're being rude and you don't watch what you say 3> you're narrow minded 4> you're fake or completely unfaithful to your own theories, beliefs, philosophies. Thankfully, there are only a few people like that in my life; thankfully, they are not completely immersed in it. I can take it in small doses.) I'm pretty satisfied with my 50/50 theory that I learned during RA training: not everyone will love you. That's fine for me and it applies in the matter of me to you as well. If you like me and I like you, we'll have a good time. If not, we don't have to put up with each other- we can find other people that we do like. Simplicity.
People drive my life, as I am constantly surrounded by them and will work with them. I take from them my own strengths and awareness of my weaknesses. This was largely emphasized on the trip with the people I could simply not escape from. Being surrounded by them on a 24/7 basis for nearly a month- yes, you only really get to know people when you travel or live with them. I made a lot of life-long friends that I had amazing adventures with. I met some people I didn't like, and it showed me what I didn't want to be and the types I don't want to surround myself with- be with. I get more in depth with my London post, so I'll leave it at this for now.
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| This is for shits and giggles. They sort of look alike. |
What's in the near future? Harry Potter 7 Part 2 (uhhh, 8/8? 7.0?) comes out next week; I think I've pinpointed what my mentality towards the series as a whole is, as well as the franchise; so perhaps I'll do a post on that ("Harry, Don't Surf"). Also, I'll get into why I really like the third book and the third movie. (Blasphemy, apparently.) LOTR vs Potter? Undoubtedly the conflict of where my loyalties are, and I'll go into that in another post.
Au revoir for now and don't drink the water.
