It’s funny to feel homesick. Ironic but to be away from those who made us brings this sweet and sour flavor that I can’t explain. We know that home will always be home no matter how far or the time we are away from it. However, our pride will never allow us to realize it until we are forced to remember those times when mom would cook for us or dad with his jokes would light up a dark day of school.
No one is exempt of been homesick, not even the students from America who despite not showing their feelings go every weekend home with the excuse of "washing their clothes".
We, international students live a different story. We are molted to be arrows that travel long distances to reach a target. Some long and stiff, other short and slick but after all arrows with the mission to pierce their dreams and give the archer the satisfaction of a great shot. We are engineered to fly with the wind but sometimes we forget to let the wind direction guide us to that final target.
We fear to not make it far enough and sometimes we even have the fear of chasing the dreams and goal written in our initial design specifications.
To summarize my intricate analogy, I would say to you that it is normal to feel fear of leaving all that you know behind, however, the values and ideas taught at home are that wind that will lead you towards your final goals. Test yourself and ask the archer to release you.
I asked mine 5 years ago and since them I have learned to ride the northern winds and every day feel closer to my first target...
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