I had a great time reconnecting with the people that single-handedly managed to make my experience there such a memorable one. However, it is a strange feeling returning to the place I spent some of the most incredible, trying, and yet impacting years of my life as merely a visitor. California has been a place I had for so long been able to call home and yet now it has acquired a sort of distant feeling. There were some feelings of discomfort, honestly, driving around areas of such familiarity yet feeling disconnected all of the sudden. LA - in all of its glory seemed to have lost some of its mystique. In the place that I can truly call a second home, I have developed a greater affinity for the friends and family I have there than the city.
In all the return made me realize that the relationships I hold so dear and that I care to maintain are not tied together by any one city. Fostering these relationships are what I really aim to focus on in this time of transition.
Thanks to those who made my college experience such a fruitful one...
For the time being I plan to spend some much needed time reflecting in the mountains.
Keep bloggin' - Carter
3 comments:
oh to be a man without a state. wish i could be there for all the adventures amico.
also, if you're into this sort of thing, the new sigur ros album, (pause to look up name in itunes) "med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust" is really fantastic. it's very uplifting (in contrast to some of their earlier work) and it puts me right in the mood for summer. unfortunately, i have no idea what the heck they are saying...
I, too, was very nostalgic while down there. It was about as strange as I could have imagined it could be. But nevertheless, I am glad I made it down there one last time and am especially happy to have intersected you there. It worked out quite well, i must say. Good times. I still need to hear more about the wedding and yosemite.
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