"This desocializing process-- the sloughing off, like a snake skin, of the useless preoccupations and standards of the society I had left, and the growing of new ones that were more tuned to my present environment-- was beginning to show. I was glad that the others didn't stay, to make sense to them, trying to remember the niceties of conversation, the triviality of those almost forgotten patterns of interaction with my own kind, who were like animals circling each other-- unsure, on guard. I liked, still like, the person who emerged from that process far better than the one who existed before it- or since it. In my own eyes, I was becoming sane, normal, healthy, yet to anyone else's I must have appeared if not certifiably mad then at least irretrievably weird, eccentric, sun-struck and bush-happy." --Robyn Davidson
I feel impressed about your "I feel about because" piece because it captures the essence so well :)
ReplyDeleteI also feel sad about not seeing you anymore because you are so fun to be around!!!!!
Wow - I haven't done that for a while - it feels so good to be able to express myself! (sarcasm is cool) miss you -kelly k