“It’s a hard thing, the expat life – because you never lose who you are, no matter who you eventually become. You never stop missing home, even when it’s no longer home.

An expat is a square peg, always trying to fit into a round hole. And even if you no longer fit your country of origin (as I don’t) it’s hard to know you might never fit anywhere else either.

And sometimes, in the daily exhilaration and exhaustion of always having to learn to navigate new places, you just want the comfort of the familiar. The ease of knowing how to operate, speak the lingo, blend in, be the insider. Someplace you don’t have to think about or adjust to. Someplace that has memories and family and pull on the heart.

I’m sure some of this has to do with your experience of the other day. But it happens to all of us from time to time.

I miss it too.

Just know you’re not alone.

Jen”

song of the day: bernard fanning -songbird

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