Tuesday, January 03, 2006

From Europe with love



Lots to write about. Don't think I'll write about any though.

Clash of cultures, this does really exist, as long as you try to integrate them. We are really different, us and them. We can play friends, try to understand and accomodate, but it takes a while to know where we're coming from. Lets accept our differences, but how can it be part of my intimate personal life? I've never been part of another culture, yet I've never accepted my own culture, but I've been comfortable with it. Now how can that other culture be part of my life? and me be comfortable with it?

Someone told me I try to know in order to be in control, have to get all the info. I feel lost with so many unknowns. Don't even know the language. I'm actually missing, not Egypt, but Canada here. Tonight's bar tender in the Irish pub was a Canadian girl, from Toronto, and this made me feel at home! finally someone speaking proper English.

Sex, a simple word, yet I'm realizing its complexity. I thought I knew a thing or two about it. Why is it taken so lightly by many?! Am I really complicating it, or is it a complicated topic? Another cultural difference, isn't it? People are different, genders are different, I am different. Another thing I can't comprehend or accept here.

She either wants to be controlled, or wants to control. why not just live and let live? Though its hard for me to do that too. One thing is for sure, I don't understand a thing, and that makes me lost.

I need a big goal to work on. Someone told me once, why not start small? That's a good advise.

4 comments:

Cliche~ said...

You're not over complicating sex, and they're not over simplifying it. Because even though sex might sound like a concrete concept at face value in reality its a subjective reality. So, ur complicated regard of sex is subject to your own individual perspective, which is ofcourse to an extent affected by culture, but it doesnt simply boil to they see it as simple and we see it as complicated. I mean ofcourse, the fact that they can "get some" easily, while (most of us) spend a lifetime anticipating what its like before doing it, adds a value to what we're doing. Yet still that difference in cultural constraints interacts differently with each individual, and i still think personality is the main component. Its like culture is ur paint brush,,,,but at the end of the day u will paint it ur own style...

Alina said...

I think I am basically shaped so that I can adapt to almost any type of culture, adapt here meaning to accept it to some extent and learn to live with it. But I guess this is still part of my own culture. Us Romanians, over many centuries, learned to deal with so many different nations from different continents. Actually I think there is no Romanian nation on its own, it is just a mix of others, a bit like Americans, only with a way longer history.

As for sex, it is really complicated. Talking about it, having it, understanding it where others are concerned! I think the only mistake we could make would be not giving it the proper importance, no matter how we call it or feel it - sex or making love.

Happy New Year, Mo, and welcome back, I hope...

melisah said...

nice blog here!

MoonLightShadow said...

The last thing I expected when I was visiting your blog was to find a new post!

Clash of cultures certainly exist. Haven’t been through any though.

BTW, that Tulip flower is amazing.. I love it.