"But there are the fears. And yes, life has gone on without you. And the longer you stay in your new home, the more profound those changes will become. Holidays, birthdays, weddings — every event that you miss suddenly becomes a tick mark on an endless ream of paper. One day, you simply look back and realize that so much has happened in your absence, that so much has changed. You find it harder and harder to start conversations with people who used to be some of your best friends, and in-jokes become increasingly foreign — you have become an outsider." This summer I have been catching up with things. My plan was to catch up with everything that had changed. Not much has changed in 9 months but some things definitely did. There was this perpetual fear in my mind that what if I turn a foreigner in my own country, among my own people besides being a foreigner in the new land.. Hopefully my plans of the 4 years (and probably more) will reduce the chances of that happening.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 06:43:01 +0000