Multiple worlds

Chapter 177

The confusion and tension of multiple worlds can be very stressful as you feel pulled first one way and then that way. This is the number one stress under the hood of my daily living. And most people who may read this won’t have any idea of what I am talking about, at least in a practical experiential way. I am certain you can follow the conversation mentally though.

I live in multiple worlds. I live in Eastern Europe and have for the last 20 plus years. The EE world is very not America. Oh I also find myself living in America 40% of the year since my mom and brother both passed away three years ago, and now there is just my dad and me. The third geographical and cultural world I live in, though not nearly as much as I want to, is Thailand, or SE Asia in general. All three places have great pluses and horrible negatives, and the reasons to be in all three places are compelling.

Few of you reading, this live in multiple geographical spaces, and you should be thankful. While it sounds really sexy on paper or a travel brochure, it is exhausting physically and mentally in the real world. “Home” is no longer a geographical space. That in and of itself is a discombobulating experience within your mind and heart.

But most of you reading this know, understand and experience the confusion and tension of multiple mental worlds. You have a job. You have a family. That’s two very different worlds. Perhaps you have a serious hobby or passion, and that would be another world.

The only way to navigate these worlds in a positive manner, at least for me, is be all present in whichever one you find yourself at the moment. 

Now if they would just stop overlapping . . .