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It's an apt metaphor. Your internal clock is in a different time zone than you, and each day it comes a bit closer, until you and your internal clock are at las
by ASalazarMX 5y ago
It's an apt metaphor. Your internal clock is in a different time zone than you, and each day it comes a bit closer, until you and your internal clock are at last in sync.
Souls don't exist, but the metaphor of something slower catching up to you is nicely done IMO.
- dougmwne 5y agoYou also spend those days feeling utterly unlike yourself, in a new environment that is perhaps subtly, perhaps radically different than home. You feel distinctly unmoored and if there could be a collective unconscious psychically linking us to those around, then surely it must take a little while to get plugged into such a thing.
- QuantumG 5y agoMost of my co-workers who have met me in person would describe me very differently to the few co-workers with whom I share the same continent. Jet lag changes my personality so significantly.