Mexico v Thailand

[KhunLA]

On 6/25/2023 at 3:32 PM, GinBoy2 said:

I think as we enter the final phase of our lives, many of us want familiarity more than anything.

Living almost half my adult life here, I'd say I'm just as familiar here, as I was in USA.  Maybe more so here/TH.   

 

Now, I probably wouldn't recognize the place, as I look on streetview now  & then, at old haunts & neighborhoods I lived, and whoa ... what a change.

[GinBoy2]

14 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Living almost half my adult life here, I'd say I'm just as familiar here, as I was in USA.  Maybe more so here/TH.   

 

Now, I probably wouldn't recognize the place, as I look on streetview now  & then, at old haunts & neighborhoods I lived, and whoa ... what a change.

I get that

 

For me it's more language.

 

After all these years I still translate Thai and Lao in my head  as I speak.

 

English and Spanish swirl in my head fluidly, i don't even think about it.

 

I dream in my native languages, yet never once have I dreamt in Thai Lao or Mandarin

 

Mt wife is Thai, speaks Thai English and Lao but she grew up as a teenager in the US. She has the same issues, but for her all three are native and she dreams as such

 

So maybe thats what I mean about familiarity rather than a physical place 

Edited July 7, 2023 by GinBoy2