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I have reasons, we all have. But who cares? Scores of other people have the same reasons, but they don’t do what we do.

First sign, you start to read a lot of webcomics. You check more than once a day for updates, even though you know it’s once a week only.

Then you start watching an awful lot of series. You download or buy complete seasons because you can’t settle with watching one episode a week.

You start hating the dubs. You want the original voices, beacuse those suit the characters much better. You start complain how the dubbing sucks these days, and you can’t even confess yourself you’re too addicted to the series.

You start being picky. You choose series which are similar to everyday life, because that’s so different. Heck with fantasy, heck with science fiction, down with extraordinary. You want gray.

Then you find the series so true. You watch some characters, and you say that’s so me, or Peter, or Shane, or someone you think you know, but deep down you suspect they’re not like that at all, it’s just you didn’t meet them for a long time.

After that, you spend a whole night up, watching some series, just one more episode, really, until your alarm clock goes off. You get close to the characters. You know what you would have done in their place, you know what you would say to them. You imagine meeting the characters – not the actors, the characters. You probably don’t even know the name of the actors. You just know they were John in this, or Amy in that series.

And then it flips. Their problems seem much more realistic than your own ones. You start dreaming about butterflies, and you ask yourself, are they living in a soap, or are you? And what the hell if you’re late from work, you HAVE to know what she said to her.

…what’s next?

This was a long day, but it was quite satisfying.

I had my first introductionary meeting with the ballet. I was invited to the production Judit’s dancing in, and – despite the irritating audience who start clapping when they hear the Radetzky March – I quite liked it. The dancers were students, but they were very good, especially a couple of them. But then one group had to use a contemporary classical music, and I got a headache… So I talked a bit with Judit (she was so gleeful), and then I left.

Judit is my never-born older sister (even though she’s younger than me…). We first met in the dorm, and slowly but inevitably became very good friends. After I left the dorm, we kinda lost contact, especially when I left the university, but recently we started talking regularly again. I haven’t realised how I missed her until then.

After that I met Ket… I haven’t seen her for almost a year, and I can tell she’s still beautiful, and confident. It was years ago when we talked often, she was still attending primary school, but she already had a complex personality… (And I’m afraid if I tell how pretty she already was back then, she’ll either blush or kill me…) She got much more confident, relaxed and mature, but only in a healthy measure. People shouldn’t grow up too fast or too much.

Oh well, I won’t be able to tell what I felt, because feelings can’t be told. What I know and can tell is, I hope I can talk with her again and often.

When I arrived to Esztergom, I had a lot of things I wanted to tell, but as I was walking home, they all faded out while I was listening to a song inside. (You know the feeling, when a song pops up in your mind, and it’s like you can hear it?) As I was fumbling through the lyrics, everything else seemed small and unimportant, and then they were gone…

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Today I’ve been to the History of Trains Park, in Budapest. Working in a museum has its merits – I was invited, so it was free; we got a guided tour, and we got to see and hear a couple of things normal visitors can’t, and we got to eat in a stationary buffet car used as a fancy restaurant.

I’ve taken only a couple of pictures, because I didn’t have a camera with me, only my cellphone…

Vasúttörténeti park

Everyone who goes to Hungary should visit it.