But then I came back. It turns out, when you leave your home for almost 2 years, suddenly going back does not feel so natural anymore. At some point, you float in between places, nowhere entirely yourself anymore. Which sounds worse than it actually is. You get used to restructuring yourself, redefining this, erasing that …
Category Archives: Seeing Things from the Distance
About this Derailment Thing
A few months after arriving in UK and searching for a job that I would not entirely hate, I realized my self-image started to shift. Who am I here, in this new country, among people who do not know me? The concept of derailment in psychology refers to the disconnection between your present and past …
There Will Be Bad Days, and There Will Be Good Days
Culture shock is real. I never truly believed it is a real thing, although I vaguely thought it would be “difficult” to adapt, in the beginning.
