So, as one might say, this was young psyche versus old psyche. The country of Romania per se had only come together as a nation a couple of centuries before but its psyche is a thousand years old. It has grown through a lot of different routes and responses.
Bill
So, what are some things that you learned from this work that you did? Given your background internationally, it’s not as if this is the first time you have been to another country. Your life was filled with international experiences, before then and since then. You have been exposed to many intercultural, cross-cultural, and transnational experiences. What about this particular work taught you something or impressed you?
Agnes
The world is home to a lot of people who are either refugees or have moved around the globe. These people constitute my tribe. I speak six languages, by now all with an accent. And so, the globe is my home. All of us globalists have parts of us that associate with different emotions associated with the different cultures in which we have lived (physically or intellectually). We live with multiple ways of thinking, ways of feeling, ways of viewing the world.
And the work, I think, for those of us who are so multifaceted and torn, is to be conscious of these many facets. It’s like you’re a gemstone with different sides. Those are the things that are going to come to the surface—depending on which one is reflecting the light in the moment.
