coffee_signal_39•2 months ago

sadbelongingHeld here

I moved across the world and the homesickness hits at the strangest moments

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It is not the big landmarks I miss. It is the specific smell of my grandmother's kitchen, a song on the radio in a language I rarely hear now, the way strangers back home understood my jokes without explanation. I chose this life and I am grateful for it, and still some nights the missing is physical.

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silver_window_21•2 months ago

I do not have advice, just solidarity. Sometimes being witnessed is the whole medicine. I see you and I am glad you are still here.

coffee_echo_58•2 months ago

I needed to read this more than you know. Bookmarking it for my own hard nights. Thank you for trusting this space with something so real.

frost_echo_76•2 months ago

The version of you on the other side of this is going to be so grateful you kept going on the days it felt pointless. Please keep going.

cloud_echo_23•2 months ago

Honestly thank you for writing this out loud. So many of us feel it and never say it. You just made a bunch of strangers feel less alone tonight.

little_rain_62•2 months ago

Sending you so much warmth right now. Whatever you decide next, please be as gentle with yourself as you would be with a friend saying these exact words.