while driving

While driving around yesterday (hwy 280 being conducive to thought) it seemed to me that travelling makes time go differently. I mean travelling over a long time period the way I have moved around a lot in my life and never lived anywhere more than a few years and then I end up living in a different city and state. not counting early childhood that is MI->TX->Aust.->CA->AZ->NM->IL->Irv.->SF again. It has always meant that I feel the same as I move from place to place and I think I would feel older if I had stayed put. When you stay in one place for a long time, the place changes around you and your own age is apparent in comparison.

or something. all nonsense...

Comments

[leblanc]

i was just thinking the other day that moving, even within the same city and just to a different house, really helps me remember what happened when and with who. i feel like if i bought a house and then lived there for 50 years my sense of time and place would be significantly blurred.

[Jo]

And having kids in school helps me mark time. "Back when Sophie was 2" is sort of useful to place things. When they go to college I'll be adrift again in unmarked time. hmm. Then it will be "when I got my new colostomy bag."

Yuck, sorry. Carried away. Apologies to people with colostomy bags.

[Iris]

Hello - my children are in college and I am still as young and vibrant as ever.Try to think of my bag as a fashion statement.