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Old 12-20-2007, 03:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
Lola
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No matter where you go, there you are. -Confucius
The first thing that popped in my mind reading your post was - what are you running from? You justify your frequent moving decisions as seeking new experience, learning, awareness but I just have to wonder what inner work you're managing to avoid or delay with the constant disruption of a new place to live.

You mentioned your family. Does that include children? If so, I encourage you to consider the impact frequent moves are having on them. From birth through my senior year in high school, I lived in 10 different cities. While I do credit a life of *non-stop new-everything* with a greater ability to bounce back, to live with flexibility; I did not learn how to nurture and sustain long-term relationships with people or places, or the value in keeping at something hard until it was done. (Those were lessons learned as an adult at the School of Hard Knocks). But more than anything, I have never in my life had the feeling of being *from* anywhere.

I encourage you to dig a little deeper Ama. Consider you're occupying your mind, body and life with the function of moving and adapting to a new place, and by doing so are avoiding the exploration of the neighborhood that's always with you no matter where you go.

I bet you'll find what you're looking for has been right there all along.
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