Baggage

No matter where you travel and however many borders you cross, you still carry baggage in your head. You cannot run from issues by changing location. However, you may get a clearer perspective and experience new things that influence your views and feelings.

If I did not live abroad for so many years, so far away from my family, would I appreciate their advice on mundane details so much? Would I yearn to see them so frequently? When all else is not so equal, but gone, you tend to appreciate the core elements of your life.

Running away from family tif-tafs or a country's growing pains does not make you forget what home is about. It just makes you far from home. The anchor, the center never change -- you just move further or closer to it at different time segments.