Wednesday, January 4, 2012

on homesickness.

I text a friend earlier, one who is out of town for six weeks, saying 'don't tell me you're homesick already'.

To elaborate this idea, being homesick, while it shows you what you love, solves nothing. It doesn't prevent the fact that you're not at home (if you are capable of returning at that exact moment though, why are you hesitating??), it just takes you out of appreciating your current location, both geographically and mentally. You may not be where you want to be, but take it for what it is, learn what you can, and love it with your whole heart. Every place you go and every person you meet becomes a part of you, so why not take the best from it as opposed to making yourself bitter and resentful because they are not your ideal? You're getting there, I promise; if you're working your ass off and figuring it out.

Don't take the here and now for granted. Embrace it. And when you get home, you can tell everyone how much you missed them, but how freakin' incredible your learning opportunity was.

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