I usually use my email Inbox as a "to-do" list. Once I reply to an email, then it gets stored in another folder. But apparently I haven't been very good about keeping the Inbox cleared since I moved to Thailand, since I had about 450 emails from the last three years.
Every day this week I have slowly been cleaning out my Yahoo email inbox. It's been an interesting experience to read back through old emails from friends around the world. Sometimes when I think of a certain person, I think of an email they sent to me. I was shocked to see that often these emails are from years ago, even though it doesn't seem that long.
And it seems like a lot of my "to-dos" haven't really changed all that much over the past three years. Once I got accustomed to living in Bangkok, the topics that have been interesting to me as well as my view of my life here hasn't really changed all that much. I thought perhaps that moving to the other side of the world would transform my life, but I don't think I have changed that much at all.
Hm... I'll have to think about this some more. Is it really true?
I agree that we cannot change ourselves that much by living in other countries. but this is something to do with age too. Maybe we are just too old to change. :P