Post-trip depression: It is often emotionally Harder Come Home as Go Away
Before my first trip around the world, I was driving through Boston with my friend Mike. One of the things I talked about was how different life would be if I returned home. Where would my friends to be in life? How would you have changed? Which jobs would they? New hobbies? New relationships? I imagined a world of possibilities.
"Everything will be exactly as you left it," he said. "When I studied abroad, I thought the same thing. But in truth, nothing will be different when you get home. Everything and everyone will be the same."
I did not believe him. Finally, a lot happen in a year.
But when I came back, I realized he was right. I had changed, but not at home had. My friends who are now in their late twenties heading, had the same jobs were to go to the same bars, and were usually do the same things. Moreover, Boston itself only felt equal. It had the same impulse as it had before.
It was as if frozen at home during my time had stayed away. I still loved my friends, family and the city, but I did not fit. I had to live there outgrown. Home felt small and unrelatable - I had the fire that I could bring anyone expressed in me, and it frustrates me. It longed to try new things, you go to meet new places and new people, but when I tried to express that words fell flat. The fire was a feeling that only those who had traveled, seemed to understand -. to convey a simple nod understanding this common bond
When the excitement subsided at home, I wondered what was next. I was restless. I felt stale. Did I take this long journey just to the right to land back where I started? No, of course not. I took it to grow.
is easier to come home, as they did in 08, that first time was, but the road still attracts me for just a few days. I know that it is there that I find kindred spirits who understand me.
after a year of mind blowing adventure, you're back where you started have -. on a couch, back in your home or in your old bedroom, bored, anxious and nervous. You will not understand your friends you new, do not want to sail over your time on the Pacific to hear while sitting in rush hour, or do not get why you feel so uncomfortable to be back. "What? You no longer do it here so?"
you feel as if you are back to the exact spot you were left.
I know. I was there. And so have many others.
Post-Holiday Depression is real. Who is returned from a trip, know what I mean. We talk about how amazing and life-changing long-term travel is rarely the idea address that comes home, is more difficult than to leave. Online communities you can commiserate with like-minded people, but they are of little use.
If the initial hugs are hugged out, tells the stories, and the meeting over, many of us find that returns home not really at home coming. Our true home is surrounded by the unknown.
The street is where we belong.
And for this reason, the view is always on the horizon, looking, dreaming, and wish for another opportunity gone.
Further examples
- How Dan to Life Back Home Adapted
- That Place Called Home
- Why Coming Home Hat failure does not mean
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