re-integration...

well this is always an interesting time... the time between when you get home from a trip and when you feel home... for me, this usually occurs at the halfway point of the amount of time i was away... so if i was away for a month, it would take about 2 weeks to feel re-integrated... but of course, there are always exceptions to this rule... every once and a while you will have an experience that you may never get over, and other times re-integration will happen much quicker... in my most recent journey to quebec for 6 weeks, within 3 days i was able to feel right back at home again... that may be because while in quebec i was still recovering from my re-integration from mexico, which, forever interrupted, may prove to be one of those trips i'll never get over... part of not getting over an experience, comes from the continuation of aspects in your old life, such as people, or habits... this is the case for me... but i don't view it as a negative thing in the least... having an experience stay with you in the long-term either through the friends you made and continue to keep close or by something new you may have brought back are what make these experiences so incredible, so worthwhile... so though i'm no longer spurting out random spanish phrases or gooping salsa over absolutely everything, i still hold some of the important things and people as close to my heart as i did when i was there and i hope to continue to do so... so maybe re-integration is not necessarily the best thing... maybe instead it should be called re-adjusting...

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