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WritingsJul 7, 2025Source article

The shape of things

A reflection on how immersion in a place can reshape a person’s appearance, speech, habits, and identity.

It ain’t just your pigment that changes

Man the environment doesn’t force us bro

We ARE the environment

After one month in iran i start to look like them

My skin everything

The way i talk

Fully immersing myself

Store clerks don’t even know I’m not from there

Maybe sinne the say, the nearby city? They have an accent too but slight they say

it’s crazy man

You go to Germany and they’re light

Then you go lapland sweden they’re snow white!

I way like the Mexicans for a week i get the same dad gut!

And eat like a Kurd i begin to toss dice and crack jokes!

It must be true…

That we are not only evolved BY the environment

But we slowly become it

Look like it

Like two lovers that spend so much time looking into the lovers eyes

Their faces begin to mesh into one another

Taking the form of the beloved…

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