Poll: What Stage Are You At?

[nikad]

I am happily resigned.

It took me 5 years to get to this stage and to accept that I don't want to be anywhere else (although I dream of living 6 months of the year somewhere else when my children finish high school). I am prepared to die under the wheels of a bus, in a shooting, hijacking, or crushed by a falling sign/balcony, etc.

When traveling abroad and standing in line, I notice that I need to remind myself to respect other people's personal space.

I do not greet the bus driver anymore. I prepare and give milanesas to my children without guilt. I am not as involved in the building's owners association. I know people won't pay their expensas and they will get away with it. I've stopped wishing Cristina would die. I don't see a solution anymore.

I am wearing dirty, beat up boots which I would not wear in the US or Europe. They would be in the trash already if I was living in Europe or the US. Same with my children's school uniforms. My son's blue polo shirt has a whiteout stain and he just took a blue marker to cover it up.

The only thing which still makes me very sad is the waste of plastic wrap and excessive packaging whenever I buy food to go.

I was happily resigned until I finished writing this post. Now I'm re reading it and getting depressed... does the above mean that I have relaxed or that I have regressed?

or you can call that cultural defeat? j/k

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

dangling prepositions aside (grammar nazis!!) ...

Sorry. Thanks for the correction. Yes, "at" is a preposition. The sentence works perfectly without it. I want to throw a rock through my TV screen when I hear professional reporters dangle their prepositions.

 

[dennisr]

Life is good in Argentina:
My Argentine friends/cronies is what it is all about for me here. In my home country, feel like a turd in a punch bowl: odd man out. We talk about some heavy issues, merits of this ass or that ass instead of F... Obama Care. My friends have their priorities right. We are harmless for the most part: +65.

 

[AngelinBA]

Ha ha! I like your poll very much, ARBound, but I can't vote because I seem to move through all of the options on a 3-6 monthly cycle (except the first two, I don't think you can really go back to denial once you've had your eyes forced open to the truth).
At the moment I am hovering between acceptance/depression and acceptance. As long as I still check for traffic before crossing 9 De Julio, I think I'm on the positive side optionsse two options.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Sorry. Thanks for the correction. Yes, "at" is a preposition. The sentence works perfectly without it. I want to throw a rock through my TV screen when I hear professional reporters dangle their prepositions.

You're welcome.