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Kiss Me 3?

1/26/2019

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So, I have been kind of wrapped up in a bubble of thinking, "we don't have any transition issues, we are fitting in well here in the US."  For the most part, that is true.  

This license plate was just the first drop in the glass though of something I am coming to understand a little more as time goes on, and that is...I don't fit in as much as I think I do.

I saw it, laughed, and took a picture of this to show the kids, who also laughed.  Kiss me 3?  Nice.  When I showed it to a lifelong USA resident, they said "be same 3" what does that mean?  Wait...who is right?  ​

Then comes conversations about buying something or something traditional in this area or time of year...and I have never heard of it or it is a totally foreign concept.  And then to drive the point home that it is not me...everyone who then joins the conversation, agrees, has the gidgetdrives the point further home.  Mentions of common Christmas plants that I have never heard of...but everyone else seems to have,  driving customs that I swear weren't a thing when I lived here about 20 years ago, conversations about politics, policies, rights, they make ratcheting screwdrivers now?...the list goes on.  I think I was just kind of denying them for a while.  And denying how long it has been, I mean, 18 years "gone" hasn't seemed that long, but clearly it has been.  

All this can be a little uncomfortable.  And it comes even more going into our home culture as well.  (think about that sentence that just came out of me for a bit.)    But...overall, it is pretty encouraging in a strange way.  Wherever we were born, and whatever culture we are given growing up or encounter living wherever we are or where God takes us, it should not be our first and foremost identity.  There is something freeing of being caught between cultures to help you identify what really matters, what you really believe, and what is just not important, or what it just not as important as others think it is or should be.  

Kiss me, or be the same...whichever way is fine by me.  


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