The Past

Have you ever changed completely in a very short span of time? By changed completely, I mean changed your fundamental assumptions about the world, about people, about yourself, and represent those changes in the way you see yourself, your place in the world, the way the world works. And then have you had the old you be brought back up again? Or better yet, have people from your old life reappeared?

It's rather unsettling. It's frustrating. I don't really like it. I don't not like it, I just don't like it either. I feel pressured to resume the "right" role from my past. Remember these people from my past have radically different views of the world and what the world should be than I do now, but that I did once hold. How do you interact with that group of people? What do you say? You are primarily limited to the weather and every body's health. Well, even health is contentious because their perception of health is distinctly different than mine. I certainly cannot discuss any thing that I find fascinating (except perhaps my horse) because there exists a fundamental deep disagreement among the interlocutors. The situation is both potentially explosive and potentially mundane. Escaping from those extremes is very difficult, and I am not sure that it is even possible in every case.