I got this from a fellow PCV and thought it deserved to be passed along... thanks Meli!
"So
you look at your life, and the two countries that hold it, and realize
that you are now two distinct people. As much as your countries
represent and fulfill different parts of you and what you enjoy about
life, as much as you have formed unbreakable bonds with people you love
in both places, as much as you feel truly at home in either one, so you
are divided in two. For the rest of your life, or at least it feels this
way, you will spend your time in one naggingly longing for the other,
and waiting until you can get back for at least a few weeks and dive
back into the person you were back there. It takes so much to carve out a
new life for yourself somewhere new, and it can’t die simply because
you’ve moved over a few time zones. The people that took you into their
country and became your new family, they aren’t going to mean any less
to you when you’re far away."
By Chelsea Fagan
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