Are most of our deepest connections to people? Is that how it has to be? I don't want to wane philosophical here, but what are you most connected to? A person? An animal? A place?

My professor said that, as humans, we form the deepest connections to people, and second is to place. Alright, I'm only 20 now, maybe that's why, but I think MY deepest connections are to places.

To further blasphemitize what he said; my deepest connections are in places that I've never lived! Shock. Places that I've only been for a total of a month or so. Not where I grew up. Not where I'm going to school. I'm talking about a place where my ancestors lived for generations before my parents left and had me somewhere far away. I'm talking about another place that I discovered by myself, halfway across the continent. Where does the blasphemy come in? He tells me that people can't put down roots in places they've never LIVED. (What does it mean to live somewhere? And who am I, anyways, who he says has never lived there?)

This sounds corny, but on my bad days I think of these places and have to try not to cry because I'm not there. I don't do that for people, I don't miss them and wish I could be with them when I'm feeling icky.

How can you root yourself in a place you've only set foot on three or four times?

I don't eat every word my professors tell me. I just know there's a high value to human connection, and if it's anything like what I feel for these places... what am I missing?

Not that I expect an answer.

Why did I journal about this here?

Because my DA page was up instead of MS Word.

It's laundry time!