When you go somehwere new, it is exciting.
Be it for a holiday, a day trip or for a few years.
The discoveries of new people, new foods and new ways of doing things is fascinating. Every day is fun and challenging
Moving to a new place is magical. In so many ways. So very very exciting. Yes it can be frustrating, but most things are sheer delight.
Going back somehwere is different.
You are not interesting. You are not special. You know your way around. You don't get offered help. You dont get support from the company. You just get on with it.
Yet you don't fit in, you don't know how things work, you have changed, they have changed, it has changed, you don't remember what you loved so much.
Yet as the time goes on, this changes.
You love it again, you know why this is home, you love your friends deeply, you enjoy your neighbourhood, you know you want to stay forever. You don't understand why you felt so bad a few months ago. You fit in.
I think this reintegration is an unknown phenonemem. Companies spend millions shipping people around the world, helping with cultural education, offering spousal support, a few days with a welcome agent, language training, you name it, good companies offer it. Yet on return, you get your plane ticket home and if you are lucky a desk to sit on.
It's as if, reintegration is plug and play.
Well it's not. Its bloody hard.
So there it is captured and stated. It's now time to move on, look forward, but for any of you about to experience this move back. Be prepared. And don't stress, it will all come good.
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