Cities, pictures, skin, homes, and selves

[ai_rei]

Here I am, in Ottawa, sitting on the footsteps in front of my house. At this very moment, I am waiting for Noémi to show up so we can spend an awesome night of not sleeping and being crazy all night long. Why have I decided to wait outside with my laptop at the front door? Who knows! I guess that's just how my mind works and I've never bothered to

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[g_gwozdecky]

What we have here is a case of the Creepy Opposite Parallels, or COP for short. When I go back to Ottawa, I am exactly the same as I am here. Or maybe I'm the same here as I am there? At any rate, it doesn't matter.

I've also found that I don't know what I want to be doing, and yet you have? Perhaps the two variables relate somehow?

[ai_rei]

Graham, it seems that if we combine together, we will either be a very ambitious and honest being... or one that has no idea where life will go and changes faces wherever they go. Perhaps with our combined forces, we create some form of balance in the universe. HOORAY FOR BALANCE!

[g_gwozdecky]

So... if I were to say, jump off a building, would the balance shift to your end, or would you somehow, in a cosmic attempt to preserve balance, be beaned by a meteorite?

It's a compelling question.

[ai_rei]

No, I think that if you were to jump off a building and die, your energy would be transferred into someone else, thus the cycle of balance continues with another being. So really, when you think about it, we are both part of a balance that has been going on since the dawn of time that transfers to a new soul at every death, forever connecting the people together.

[gretchsky]

Coming into your own and finding the person that you're comfortable with is what going to college (fine, fine, "university"... crazy canucks :P) is all about!! So it's awesome that you feel so comfortable in your own skin now. Not all of us are quite that lucky. But don't feel like the minute you cross back into Ottawa you're a different person. Or that you have to be a different person. It's all contextual anyway. You're going to act differently around different people in different situations and locations, adjusting to and defying norms all over the place. See? My major DOES teach some useful stuff!!

But in all seriousness, the idea of going home provokes a change in thought for all of us, whether it's humongous or barely even recognizable. It doesn't really matter though, cause you know who you are anywhere. And I know that you're a girl who should be getting the journal really soon, and get on Soleil's ass because I only had 2 freaking days with that thing before I sent it off so I could get it back to you guys. Miss you!

[g_gwozdecky]

But don't feel like the minute you cross back into Ottawa you're a different person. Or that you have to be a different person.

Uh-oh. Perhaps you should be told about her second life in Toronto as a lion-tamer trapeze artist who juggles flaming, singing flamgingos.

[ai_rei]

Don't forget my newfound passion for heroin! ^^

[g_gwozdecky]

Details, details.