roots, zoomed out

The reality is that the struggle of assimilating modern American life vs. keeping one's cultural roots is just one aspect of the more general clash of "the old vs. the new."

Whether it's learning a new technology and forgetting the thing it's replacing, or making new friends and spending less time old ones, or just simply growing up into your next phase of life and leaving behind the habits and lifestyle of the last phase.

To step even further back, I suppose all this can be summarized by one word: change.

In that light, I think I just wrote two pages of crap on how change changes you.