When You No Longer Feel Like You Belong There - But Not Fully Here Either
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One of the quietest experiences of migration is the feeling of living between two worlds.
You return to your home country and realize you've changed.
Yet in your new country, you're still seen as a foreigner.
This can lead to:
confusion about your identity;
the feeling that you don't truly belong anywhere;
nostalgia mixed with a sense of unfamiliarity.
What may help you understand this experience:
identity is not fixed—it evolves;
you don't have to choose one side or the other;
belonging can be built, not only inherited;
it's possible to create a third space: your own way of existing in the world.
You haven't lost your roots. You've expanded your story.