if i were planning to go into psych, this would be my thing. i would study, for my own benefit, the psychological implications of modern travel. people today travel so much and so far and transit between social groups and societies so much that we are developing new strategies for it. we don't have that kind of "evolutionary experience"--this is a novel phenomenon brought on by the revolutions in communication and transportation.
over the past year i have not lived in one place for more than four months. i have traveled thousands of miles, been surrounded by vastly different languages, cultures, atmospheric pressures and geographic features--oceans, waterfalls, rivers, forests, cities, trains, highways, aircrafts, cars, and so much more. i've lived in houses, a dorm, a guesthouse, a students' house and an apartment. varying routines, supervision, expectations.
can a person create and duly respond to the social construction of reality when it is constantly in flux?? surely, there are some who can--perhaps not well--, but there are many who can't. what separates them?? what can we do to help people through such a lifestyle, or need it be obliterated from society?
i believe that so much in life relies on permanence. in order for relationships to persist, you need to maintain the social context of that relationship, and when it is in a parallel construct, it takes more work. in one mind there must be a running, changing conception of the place that mind came from as well as sensing and reacting to the mind's present environment.
anyways, that's what im suffering right now. i just came from brazil, and boston before that. now im with my sister before heading to middle-of-nowhereville, NY. im finally returning to a world i'd left behind, leaving so many other worlds behind. im conscious of upcoming psychological turmoil, but i don't know what to do with it now.
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