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Friday, August 3, 2007

ISOLATION

When you are an expat everything changes; it’s a life changing experience that forever alters your notions of what’s important and what your priorities are.


Being away from all what and whom you know, walking around in different streets, breathing different air and experiencing different routines… all of this puts you in a state of isolation that resembles shipwrecking on an island…

Your only priority becomes how to sustain yourself… how to prevent yourself from perishing into what the new circumstances – persistently – demands.

How are you supposed to be yourself when everything around you is different…!!!

No matter how beautiful this island is, you are just homesick… you miss your family, your friends, your streets and most of all... you miss… yourself

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"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)