Chipi
Yancha
- 10 Mar 2003
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I'm not sure if this is such of a big issue to everyone, but I have been struggling with this for a couple of years allready.. and now I'm preparing for the bigger bomb.
As some of you may allready now, I have been in Japan for two times now, for short working periods (+3months and 6 weeks). For my family and friends it was sort of a shock to hear me going there, even for such a short time. At first they didn't even believe that I would actually go. But I did.
I'm now in a point of life where I really have to plan and think about my future. My heart is telling me (more like demanding), that I really should try to go back to Japan, and that is what I want to do. Not for a couple of months, but for years. (I'm not going to explain all work-related things here now) I am having a huge stress about telling about these plans to my family, especially to my mom. OK, I'm a grown up woman, but it's still going to break her heart - she is going to feel as if I'd leave her alone, abandone her.
It's surprisingly difficult to do that.
My friends are ok with it. They're sad but they understand and support me, saying I have to do what I feel I have to do.
I'd just like to hear stories from other people, how did your families react when you said you're going to move to another country far,far away? How did you cope with that? Did everything go well in the end, would you do something differently, etc? How long did the process take for everyone to accept the situation?
Has your living in another country brought you closer to eachother on an emotional level, or is the distance bigger not only in km/miles but also emotionally?
As some of you may allready now, I have been in Japan for two times now, for short working periods (+3months and 6 weeks). For my family and friends it was sort of a shock to hear me going there, even for such a short time. At first they didn't even believe that I would actually go. But I did.
I'm now in a point of life where I really have to plan and think about my future. My heart is telling me (more like demanding), that I really should try to go back to Japan, and that is what I want to do. Not for a couple of months, but for years. (I'm not going to explain all work-related things here now) I am having a huge stress about telling about these plans to my family, especially to my mom. OK, I'm a grown up woman, but it's still going to break her heart - she is going to feel as if I'd leave her alone, abandone her.
It's surprisingly difficult to do that.
My friends are ok with it. They're sad but they understand and support me, saying I have to do what I feel I have to do.
I'd just like to hear stories from other people, how did your families react when you said you're going to move to another country far,far away? How did you cope with that? Did everything go well in the end, would you do something differently, etc? How long did the process take for everyone to accept the situation?
Has your living in another country brought you closer to eachother on an emotional level, or is the distance bigger not only in km/miles but also emotionally?