Have you ever thought about the concept of "we" ? When you are a we you belong to something or identify with something larger than just your one person. Being part of a we usually feels pretty good.
My American daughter living in Ireland had her American sister living in Madrid visit last weekend. She kept on referring to we as in "we say it like this, and we do it like that and here we think.......and then she caught herself.
Wait a second - who is this we ? Sometime over the last 6 months, she had migrated over to being part of the we who are Irish. Now, she is half Irish by blood but up until now that was just genes. She actually hated Ireland for the first 3 months she was there - the people all seemed the same and it felt so small. Now she identified as we with them.
Her sister compared her Spanish we-ness to the Irish one.
What have I done? My family's we is all over the place.
My we over here in France eats cheese at the end of the meal, allows only the men to pour the wine and sets the table with all the silverware flipped on its back......and it all is so very normal now.
Our we has morphed across the 4 countries the five of us currently call home.
Home - now that's a concept. Actually home is California - where the roots of our we-ness really live.
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