The culture shock of coming home
I have been for a week back in America and a half now and it's a strange transition. Although this is my second time to come from abroad back home, it is no less strange. When I after 18 months home first came off, I found America to be a very strange place. It was a foreign country again. I had forgotten so much about America, but more than that, I found the concept of far stranger "to his home"
For me the biggest shock to come home was not culturally -. It was just the shock home . After my first trip, I found it hard to go anywhere to adjust the cost of things, the rapid pace of life, and not people need to interact with 24/7. This time around those things, and a small soda the size of my hand order meals large enough to feed a family of four, big cars, the lack of intelligent news channels and "big box" Wal-Mart Stores, are still an adjustment.
But all this "setting" in comparison to the simple shock only "to be at home." faded has that the hardest thing is to deal with. And if travelers home on adapting to coming we talk almost always talk about this - the transition traveler and life on the road back to your old life is
It is much more difficult than merges into travel. . When I came home last year, I did not really see anyone. I found it of such a "moving" lifestyle to such sedentary difficult to adjust. Yes, I wanted my friends and family to see, but I got used only on the journey of life, and even if it was not always perfect, it was amazing and then all not suddenly a plane ride, it suddenly more. The brake occurred and it was not easy to deal with. As you do not go by the new people and places every day the complete opposite and have a hard time
Benjamin Button to quote to get home: "It's a funny thing about comin 'home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. you will realize what's changed is you. "While in DC, I went and visited the family James from the wide wide World and we have the subject of this. In the film "A Map for Saturday," she discuss this in detail. And when other long-term travelers talk, they talk about it. And every conclusion is eerily identical: house is wonderful, but it feels quite different, and in some ways it's more home. You have changed. They are different, but life at home, it is not again. Often it is feels like it has been frozen while you were thawed just right when you come back. If you try to bring your friends to express, they can not relate and not understand.
If you tell your friends about your trip, they are initially interested, but the more details you give, the more glassy her eyes. They just want a simple answer. The more you go, the more you do it only (a) a bit jealous, (b) think they have not so much, and (c) done bored. Every traveler long term that come home and talk about his / her journey, the eyes glassy testify after five minutes. And so, if you have to be home this fear, it is hard for everyone, but also other people to understand. Because there is a feeling without words. "Weird" or "surreal" or "unattractive" are usually the best words we can describe it, but you never communicate our thoughts completely. But if you talk to another traveler, you do not need words. Simply understand. They also have undergone.
To your friends, it can come off as you may not be at home and you think it's boring. But it is not like that. You have just changed in a way that is hard to describe. It would be like to be a woman to describe, you may be pregnant. They know what they are talking about, but if you were pregnant before, you are never fully understand or would refer to it.
The real shock to come home is simply to be able to cope at home. Change back to your culture does not take long. Within a short time you will be back in your groove and the memory of the little things that you loved. But dealing with the constant movement of the trip can leave lifestyle take much, much longer and much much harder to treat, from a shock.
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