Finally - Some Thoughts

Yesterday, as I walked from my oldest friends house to my new, and temporary, house in Crown Heights, I realized that I'm finally getting over the cold. Though I still get quite jealous every time my friends back in Santiago tell me about their trips to beach towns in 30 degrees and sunshine, I am somehow adjusting in the freezing New York City winter.
It is that adjusting that I find most amazing about human kind. That we can go from one continent to another, one culture to another, one life to another, slowly changing what feels like everything about ourselves, and yet still be ourselves. Still human, and still functioning in the same skin though everything underneath may have transformed. My father once told me that there is great power in one's ability to adapt, and I finally believe it.