Why do people move from place to place? Why some people born, live and die in one place without even thinking to try to live in a different city?
My life is so far with 6 moves, 4 different countries and my husband made twice more of this.
I can say it is terribly difficult – a new language, new culture, new rules and terms of life and the faster you adapt the faster you can enjoy.
Chinese chapter of two years now finished and the German chapter is opening…
My personal attitude to the move was – “you need to be open” but it is changed to – “the whole world inside of you”. Reading Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) about “romantic consumerism” (Harari 2015, p. 159) we believe that without travelling abroad, tasting foreign cuisine, experiencing different culture we can’t get the maximum out “of our human potential” – I’m asking myself - really? For me it is not working anymore, probably I overdose with different cultures and lost my own… I’m not Russian anymore – coming back to my hometown (Moscow) I don’t feel this city in a way I loved it before. Now Frankfurt… is it my place? Do I fit this new culture, which makes it really complicated for Russians to live in Germany with all bureaucratic and humiliating procedures? With such a big travel experience people can lose themselves and become upset out of seeing a better life outside of their country. When you read, analyze, create and work it gives you more ways for realization because you have a chance to ask yourself and formulate your own ideas and needs of your life. But when you travel and move from place to place you most likely lacking time to absorbing on the things which you experienced. So you just glide over the surfaces of your potential interests with uncountable quantities of cultural experience without dipping in the subject, without reflecting on it.
As a result, for me better live and die in the place where you born with the minimum move. With this, you can have a better chance to reach the maximum of your human potential but at the same time, I’m almost sure that many can argue about this.
After 1,5 month I’m trying to come back to the educational process, blaming myself about losing so much time but (!) I read a lot))))
p.s. This post is for two courses (UVC and Drawing). I know that Professors would call this “self-plagiarism” but here I allow myself to express feelings and a current state of mind rather than any theoretical idea. I have only one head and one heart, so I don’t want to express the same feelings in different words. Please, excuse me for this.
Bibliography and references
1. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, 2015 HarperCollins e-books
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