Integrate／my love for Poland

For the past weeks
I feel "strange"

Feels like
I'm getting integrated in this city of Kraków more

― Through the people
― Through the art works

And
I feel some kind of "hesitation"

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― Through the people

I go to a cafe(s) everyday

And in some cafes,
staff do remember my face

And they give me

Better treatment
Discounts
& More warm and pleasant smile

Similar things happen in other places

Same people I bump into
in my hotel, supermarkets, on the street..........

"Loose connections" are surely being built up between us 

Certainly
this is the fruit that being in one location brings to me

And
I'm certainly pleased about it

At the same time
I feel some kind of "hesitation"

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― Through the art works

A while back
I got an interest in a couple of old Polish painters from 100 years ago

And it expanded my understandings about this city

For example;

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1
...........On the street I walk everyday
there is an American chain hotel

Only recently, I got to know
this building was used as a salon where the painters gathered 100 years ago

The same building is still remaining
& still serving the city's most practical needs
instead of converted into a museum

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2
..........On the street I often walk
there is a plate, saying

"Boy-Żeleński"

I first noticed it last year
& found it a funny name
& took a photo
And that's all

Only recently, I got to know
Boy-Żeleński was a friends of the painters
& participated the salon 100 years ago

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3
..........Seeing landscape paintings from 100 years ago

Sometimes/often
I can point out exactly where it is in Kraków

After 100 years
almost the same landscapes/scenes still remain

This hardly, or never, happens in my hometown of Tokyo

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These experiences
.......these "Dot connecting experiences".......
inevitably deepened my understandings
as well as respects
to the city I'm in

Certainly
we.......me & Kraków (or Poland).......
are getting closer

And
I'm certainly pleased about it

At the same time
I feel some kind of "hesitation"

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Why "hesitation"?

........Probably because

it all happens
out of my control

it all happens
automatically
just because, "Being in one location for a while"

........And probably because

I know, I always know, this is not the place I will be

"My place" is 12 hours away from here

In the Far East