LIFE LESSONS
If Your Heart Chose to Leave the Country, Would You Follow?
Home as existential philosophy
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home ~ Rumi
Two weeks ago, with a one-way ticket scanned on my cell phone, I left the country wherein I’d spent my entire life. Boarding a plane to the place whose soil bears the birth and bloodstains of my ancestors, I returned to the motherland.
This is my story.
Around The World
Childhood is fallacious. Taught to dream big and aspire to the highest ideals, life’s realities are too harsh for a kid to understand.
As a little girl, I wanted to be a pilot. I was going to travel and see the world. A decade later, snagging a few hours of single-engine time, I was on my way. Or so I thought I was.
In college, my family’s financial circumstances changed and since I refused to consider a military route to pay for my flight courses, I switched programs, graduating with a management degree. Choosing a career in banking, my life took a different path.
I don’t blame anyone for that detour. My decisions were (and remain) solely my responsibility. Besides, I have trekked to over 30…
