It is interesting to note the things that remain a part of your life when you relocate. In my experience, those are the things that define you, that you carry with you. It does make sense: when you change locations, you leave behind the places and the people. So all that you are left with is yourself. Ergo, repetitions in situations and events are indicative of the manifestations of your OWN personal qualities or tendencies.
Everyone can agree that you can never run away from your problems. However, can't "running away" help you to solve them? By going to another place, you can examine repetitions, consider them, and if you think it's necessary, you make personal adjustments. Perhaps running away for a while can help us become more in touch with ourselves. Is this the purpose behind the long-upheld tradition of the pilgrimage? Perhaps it isn't just about making a religious gesture; perhaps it is about sourcing oneself, discovering who and what we truly are.
I feel myself sliced neatly open and my various parts of my insides shown to me with a clear, calm precision. In many ways, I like this, though I do often find it unnerving. But there are always those small missed bits that you never really get to see. I know that they are there, but what are they? Do they matter? Are they important? Or at the end of the day, am I really just imagining them?
Where is the line between intuition and paranoia? Self-awareness and self-fulfilling prophecies?
What is it to know thyself?
Every day, I am sure that I do.
Every day, I am sure that I don't.
