Through the looking Glass

Through The Looking Glass

I'm flying of to Vienna then Olomouc in a few hours.Half dreading. Half anticipating.

My last experience, going to Prague with my previous choir, showed one thing. The iron bird will bring you to wonderland! Not because of its beauty, but because of its system, or the lack there of. What I mean is that once we left our structured homes, things change. Clicks abandoned. Teenage hierarchy abolished. Relationships get warped. People who you don't expect to ever smile to each other seem to be spending every second of every minute together!

You are in wonderland Alice; abolish the systems that are familiar to you!

And get this, once you step back out through the warped looking glass.......When you return home... All things go back as they were! Back to the old routine. Back to the usual clicks. Back to the familiar hierarchy. Cruel but true. Of course to those on the top of this caste system will be pleased to be back on their self declared thrones. But to the Misunderstood, this is a cruel flip. From pauper to Sultan, then dragged back to be a pauper once more. Oh! The modern tale of Sultan Harun Al Rashid, from Arabian Nights. They are only allowed to think of what could be. Cruel bastards!

I guess when you are in an unfamiliar world; the unconventional structure is easily accepted. But when you are back to the familiar, to feel safe, you conform to the routine. Flaws of us humans, the inability to change! (or at least in a place we are familiar with)

I'm expecting this trip, now with a new choir, to suffer the similar fate. But I just hope not. Or at least, that the good changes would be permanent. We'll see.......

Through The Looking Glass.....