Albert Herdianto Widjojo
That foxtail palm fruit already turns red. For the past few weeks, I have not noticed it, while the last time I noticed it was still yellowish green.
I think this is a typical human reality too. If you see or pay attention to someone or with frequent or continuous then we will have a little difficulty seeing or feeling a change, but if you don’t see it for a certain amount of time, you will realize that something has changed.
I even lost orientation in a certain part of Jakarta some time ago because I didn’t come to the area for a long time, also like a college friend I had difficulty finding my mother’s house, the house I lived in since I was a child which also gathering place for many friends, and once again as a meeting point after he moved out of town two years ago. He also fails to recognize my two daughters after seeing them last time four years ago.
In this case, we can be like to stand on one of the two ends of the lever with different effects. At the edge of A, we who continues to see like losing the change process while at the edge of Z we will lose familiarization or orientation.
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Have you ever felt like you didn’t recognize something that was previously close to you?
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Yes
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No
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Thanks for your compliment, dear friend. Glad you like it.
Nice photo! Yes, the first person who can notice what changes we have are those whom we have not met for some time.
You gave a good example of that, Sharon. Thanks.
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The picture is very beautiful, dear Albert….a very interesting question … sometimes things are happening to me … I come to a certain place where for a while I have not been and I’m looking for a building that in fact never stood there, but I wonder if I’m silly
Thanks a lot, dear friend. For the compliment and comment.
I think what you feel might be a kind of Deja Vu…
I do not even know what to think, dear friend
Yes. Like you’ve known this person for a long while then one day you wake up like that person belongs to another lifetime ???. I smiled while reading because I just penned a poem on that account ?
In fact, I often feel like I already know someone as I know before we get to know each other, sometimes even for toddlers or small children.
Here, in Spain, something like that may happen to me. There are many changes in my home town, but that can not happen to me right now. I’ve lived there for 46 years. Maybe I will not recognize the children of my girlfriends.I am interested in these red fruits.
Sometimes it takes time to adapt to change, even to something we know well before, even more so with something completely new and different.
what an interesting question, Albert. I suspect you’ve captured the essence of human nature. We are resolute in our goals, in our justifications of life.
When things are presented that we know, but that has changed slightly, we are suddenly met with the reality that our justification our resolution may have been incorrect.
I myself often feel strange about changes in myself, for example about my definition and description of success. That change has certainly changed my style and way of life. Many times my friends in the past said, “You are very different now”, not only in the context of appearance but also in attitude and thought.
you are different now
that is the evolution each of us undergoes is it not?
The question is, how do you react when that is directed at you?
Do you mean my reaction when people say I’ve changed? If yes, then I will laugh, and of course, I will say, “You’re right, I’m getting older…”
I always say I am selling hair to a hair bank. 🙂
Hahaha…
Do you want to remind me of my head too?
I did not know you were selling your hair to a hair bank!
I have a little stock left here.
am in that boat less and less with each passing brush!
Yes I know that feeling …
I didn’t take a route to the bus stop because its blocked for constructions, weeks later, it was empty (a huge building meter room they say) was demolished. Then a few weeks more, it’s a grassland! I thought I took the wrong turn… lol
And often, when someone changed, we still have that “old” version lingering in our mind.
That’s a strange and sometimes embarrassing feeling, right? How can we get lost in our own environment… Especially if we forget a good friend who didn’t meet again for a long time…
Also about people, we often don’t even want to believe that someone we really know has changed, in any sense…
it is strange to realize that you’ve changed so much that you no longer relate to something which was once important to you in the same way, or at all…
Hahaha… Yes, that is indeed strange!
Btw, do you see that I changed as you described the change?
it can’t see anything from here
When I went to my home town after 15 years I had to ask for directions to get to our ancestral home. I felt weird . lack of familiarity does breed disorientation. I love those red berries.
I experienced the same thing and even worse, I could no longer find my grandfather and uncle’s house in my father’s hometown even though I visited that city quite often.
Nice red berries. In the 1970s there was a new housing development at Opononi, and my parents built a house there, we went there for Christmas for 2 years. My eldest sister nearly had a divorce over driving her very young children from Gisborne first to Auckland, (which is 5 hours without stopping) They don’t stop.
Then another 4 hours after that .They told my parents they would not be gong to that place again.
After Dad retired he sold that house and moved to Papatoetoe in Auckland as no one in the family may visit them
I have been past since and everything there has completely changed
Changes occur continuously, sometimes we feel confused with very different situations when we don’t see the process in a certain period of time.
How beautiful. This has happened if I skip visiting a part of my yard and something is growing. A few days later it’s like grown two feet.
Somehow, I often feel funny or weird about this…