A good friend rightly shared a good insight into my human dilemma. Basically, she said to look at the positive side and not the negative. You are not saying Goodbye to friends and dear ones but saying Hello to ones back home who are so much a part of your life as well. And you know what? The time away which is the time with family and friends back home is short - two weeks.
Well, I come to Sydney and what faces me from the very beginning is how friendly people are in Australia. From my very arrival, I am reminded that this truly is also my home. My first day experiences here of the friendliness of people confirmed me in this - whether people talking on the bus going into town, the woman selling me the travel card, my good friend who looked after me on arriving and her family or all the people associated with the community where I am staying. People are people and people everywhere are friendly but what I see here is that people are just so directly and naturally friendly. It is nearly disarming and just makes you feel right at home.
Then this caption came my way on Facebook from my nephew. What a great saying. How true!
I guess I have two homes. Aren't I lucky? We are a strange people in how we can be held back in approaching life and its possibilities by unfounded fears or protecting ourselves from unknown threats or hurts. Or we can ???
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