LEAVING HOME

A lot of people, once or few times in their life, have passed through the "leaving home" experience. I am talking about the country where you were born, where you were raised,. where you celebrated most of your birthdays and spent good and bad days. Or any country you went and spent so many years that you ended up loving as your place.
There are many reasons why a person would leave his/her country. Social problems, wars, politics, economical issues, studies or just for adventure. Your experience out of "home" might change depending on your circumstances. I have met a woman who left her country out of love deception. Or someone who left the country after losing the family in an accident. Everyone has their own reason. And for sure passes through different experiences after arriving to that land, far from home. But, regardless of the motivation you had to leave your country, we always share a lots of feelings, experiences and thoughts.
Before leaving home to this new place, we think about how it is going to be. What is coming in our lives. We imagine this place, and us in it. We start dreaming or fearing.Once we arrive things are new, people are different, the landscape changes. And the adventure begins. You start living day to day, having fun sometimes, crying certain nights, fearing by moments, growing up in two hours more than what you did in two years. It is an explosion of feelings... Although you might feel nothing for a while, you might prefer to ignore what is in your mind and heart... but, it will come sooner or later it comes.
Certainly, you get to know yourself, in an unknown place. You get to value your family far from them and you get to love you country when you are not in there.
In this new place, strange from you comfortable space we start trying to fit, trying to learn, trying to forget, trying to ignore thoughts, trying to enjoy. We might be working like bulls, dancing, laughing, studying without stopping but, at the end of the day the nostalgia always comes and visits us. We close our eyes and see ourselves in home, playing with our pets, talking to our friends. Our soul visits our room and sleeps in our beds.
IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE YOUR HOME:
Hug you loved ones, because you know.... once you are away, their defects will go away as well. And in your eyes they will be perfect... and then you are going to miss.
Look around you, look at the walls and windows of your house, and admire the streets, trees and sky. Because, soon that is the view you are going to dream of.
Eat and appreciate each portion of food that comes into your mouth, because in a while that will be the most delightful taste ever. And the only plates you will be willing to pay any amount for.
Look at yourself in the mirror for a while because the person who is leaving will not be the same who will come back.
Be ready to see the most beautiful places, or enjoy total freedom. You will have the right to be yourself. You will live in a more intense way. You will learn and know more. You will open your eyes to different worlds, amazing experiences - for good or bad.Many times we dream. We want to see other faces, other side of the moon. And we wish to go. Just go and make your wish come true. You can only kill a wish, surrendering to it. Once you make it, it changes its shape. The word of your next wish will be HOME.