I love the ocean and I know that the surf rolls in sets of 6's..did you know that? OH I LOVE THE OCEAN. If you don’t, please lie to me and tell me you do. I also love wearing black socks. For some reason they make my feet warmer. I love good workouts and really spicy food. I love supporting people, in any sense of the word. I love staring at maps and being in my birthday suit, not necessarily at the same time. I love being emotional. I am one of those people who listen to the same song on repeat for hours at a time and if you burn your toast, I will eat it. Weird, I know. I love big cities and big hugs, I absolutely adore listening to people speak in different languages and I just cannot live without dark chocolate and tangerines—mixed.
These are some of the things that make up a part of me on a daily basis. I am certainly not limited to these loves and likes, but I do not change them depending upon whose company I am in. Do you?
I was talking about this idea with a friend the other day, whether or not he was a different form of himself with different people. He said he is. For example, he has a different personality when he speaks Spanish (his native language is English)—he turns into this hot little tango-loving-hip-shaking man. This is very different from his “American” self, with his calm, level-headed normal manner. I am smiling just thinking of his Spanish side. I never thought about that before though—if you can change who you are and maybe how you perceive things, when you speak a different language. I don’t speak another language completely fluently so I don’t know. Yet. But on a side-note, do you think that different cultures benefit or stumble around because of the stereotype (if they have more than one, the most dominating one) they accrue—like Russians as serious and stern, or Irish as loud and light-hearted? Maybe this is sort of like a self-fulfilling thing, that people sort of grow into their cultural stereotype, a socialization into their culture. But I love it when I meet someone of a different culture who doesn’t fit their stereotype. I admire that because it takes a strong and brave person to break free of what others have already projected onto them if that is not who they truly are. If this is you, we should be friends if we aren’t. I’m sure I’d like you and you’d probably get a kick out of me :)
These are some of the things that make up a part of me on a daily basis. I am certainly not limited to these loves and likes, but I do not change them depending upon whose company I am in. Do you?
I was talking about this idea with a friend the other day, whether or not he was a different form of himself with different people. He said he is. For example, he has a different personality when he speaks Spanish (his native language is English)—he turns into this hot little tango-loving-hip-shaking man. This is very different from his “American” self, with his calm, level-headed normal manner. I am smiling just thinking of his Spanish side. I never thought about that before though—if you can change who you are and maybe how you perceive things, when you speak a different language. I don’t speak another language completely fluently so I don’t know. Yet. But on a side-note, do you think that different cultures benefit or stumble around because of the stereotype (if they have more than one, the most dominating one) they accrue—like Russians as serious and stern, or Irish as loud and light-hearted? Maybe this is sort of like a self-fulfilling thing, that people sort of grow into their cultural stereotype, a socialization into their culture. But I love it when I meet someone of a different culture who doesn’t fit their stereotype. I admire that because it takes a strong and brave person to break free of what others have already projected onto them if that is not who they truly are. If this is you, we should be friends if we aren’t. I’m sure I’d like you and you’d probably get a kick out of me :)
This is a pic of Budapest today....SNOW!!!
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