Do you regularly visit a place far away from home?
After about the fifth or sixth time, something really strange happens: The 'foreign' place suddenly seems like a second home.
It's as if there's a threshold of time after which point the volume of memories you have invested in a place gives it a tangible sense of no longer being foreign. Your identity meshes with the location. It feels like a home.
There's another phenomenon too: when you're working regularly with the same team of people but you don't see them (and they don't see each other) for long periods of time, it's like you never went away. We will pick up on things as if we had barely been away for a day or two. I've seen this happen several times and it's not a coincidence.
After about the fifth or sixth time, something really strange happens: The 'foreign' place suddenly seems like a second home.
It's as if there's a threshold of time after which point the volume of memories you have invested in a place gives it a tangible sense of no longer being foreign. Your identity meshes with the location. It feels like a home.
There's another phenomenon too: when you're working regularly with the same team of people but you don't see them (and they don't see each other) for long periods of time, it's like you never went away. We will pick up on things as if we had barely been away for a day or two. I've seen this happen several times and it's not a coincidence.
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