People tend to travel for different reasons, some for entertainment, some for earning a living, some for health reasons. It is difficult to determine how much travel is too much travel, when can you know that you have moved too far away.
I traveled across seven seas to get education. Perhaps that was just an excuse and the main motivation was independence. Like thousands of others I settled into a comfortable lifestyle, good job, reasonable pay, loving husband and now a child too. At the end of the day I sometimes stop and think what I must do to go back. This is an extremely tough question for me to answer. The bitter truth is I am lazy and scared. Eight years ago I had no fear, because I had no where to go but up. Now I must think of my family, will the three of us survive a transition back across the seven seas? Can I work hard enough to have a lifestyle like the one I lead here now? My own car, dishwasher, washing machine, good health care, being the boss of my house !!, eating out at least twice a week, 24 hr Internet, working for 8 hours a day on a average and getting three weeks of paid vacation, 5 days of sick time, couple of vacations a year ( last year we went on 5 vacations).
Two of my colleagues made the move back and I know half a dozen others who did it too. If they could do it, so can we I think and I give myself confidence, hide the guilt and, buy myself some more time.
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