Monday, 21 February 2011

Longing and Belonging

That's the leitmotif of the past few weeks. Granta 114: Aliens (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing), LSE's Space for Thought festival, my previous post.... what do we long for and where do we belong?

Every once in a while I rediscover the Romanian bloggs, newspapers and ever Twitter feeds.... and I fall in love again with a country where I don't belong anymore.
At alternative times I discover English, The Onion and McSweeney's, Granta or The Atlantic and I long to belong. Again.
Occasionally I fell good in my skin and I deny longing and belonging to anything else but my own world. Good times they are... when I can forge ahead to meet the latest version of my self-identity.