Избранное принесло статью "What happens when you live abroad". And I started reading it and the next moment I knew I was crying, literally.
"So you look at your life, and the two countries that hold it, and realize that you are now two distinct people. As much as your countries represent and fulfill different parts of you and what you enjoy about life, as much as you have formed unbreakable bonds with people you love in both places, as much as you feel truly at home in either one, so you are divided in two. For the rest of your life, or at least it feels this way, you will spend your time in one naggingly longing for the other, and waiting until you can get back for at least a few weeks and dive back into the person you were back there. It takes so much to carve out a new life for yourself somewhere new, and it can’t die simply because you’ve moved over a few time zones. The people that took you into their country and became your new family, they aren’t going to mean any less to you when you’re far away.
When you live abroad, you realize that, no matter where you are, you will always be an ex-pat. There will always be a part of you that is far away from its home and is lying dormant until it can breathe and live in full color back in the country where it belongs. To live in a new place is a beautiful, thrilling thing, and it can show you that you can be whoever you want — on your own terms. It can give you the gift of freedom, of new beginnings, of curiosity and excitement. But to start over, to get on that plane, doesn’t come without a price. You cannot be in two places at once, and from now on, you will always lay awake on certain nights and think of all the things you’re missing out on back home". (с)
Я не могу даже выразить, насколько точно в этом тексте каждое слово За последние пару месяцев меня бесчисленное количество раз спросили, что я буду делать дальше - вернусь ли в Россию или останусь в Китае. И я всякий раз могла ответить только, что несомненно вернусь хотя бы ненадолго, а потом я_не_знаю. И вот именно поэтому не знаю - потому что I miss it there, I miss all of you SFM!!! But I know that I will start missing China and people here the moment I leave T________T And it really feels that it's never gonna end from now on. This just tears me apart lately