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September 03 its never easy It is amazing how fast one can find a comfort zone. Dar Afram is one of those places that you keep wanting to go back to just one more time, to see who checked in and who is checking out and to bum around talking to Taz Abdel Oulamine and Tim (for the time that he is there) into small hours. So how do you take your leave?
Difficult as it is to say goodbye when we are limited by laws of mass conservation, it is such a relief knowing that we can keep in touch in so many ways now. And it is more of a strange thing how often we do not keep in touch, even with the ones who are physically close to us. Some people say it takes so much work energy and courage to travel but I think we have it so easy. When I do travel about I keep thinking about how people used to pack up and leave their homes or families in search of riches or business, or even more a wonder, out of an itch to go and see the world despite all its unknowns. What were these relationships like, where you could not even feign an ¨I will email you¨ or ¨I will call you when I get on the plane¨ ? How hard was it without MSN messenger to talk to your family so they knew you were ok, or without phones to call up for a minute? I mean back when the only way was thru letters that took months to get anywhere... how did they get along? Were they more engaged in their surroundings and establishing their comfort zones when home was not close?
And for me, I am not technologically savvy and I think even if I was I would still think it some kind of magic or miracle that we can be so close now when our predecessors had to suffer so much more distance. I think we still take it for granted because we exchange emails all the time but rarely keep up with those ones. At least traveling gives me this awareness |
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