Back-Home Blues
A couple of days ago I got back home from my first solo trip--I went to Morocco to celebrate my 33rd birthday. I'm a woman from California and although I want to share how amazing and relatively stress-free my visit was (much more so than I anticipated it would be), I more want to share that I'm feeling very weird now that I'm back.
It's not depression exactly, but rather this weird funk that I can't seem to shake. Maybe it had to do with being the boss of my own life for 2 weeks and tapping into a part of myself that I'd never really known before.
Or maybe it was that for the first time in a while, I felt that each night of sleep in Morocco was truly earned. Every day was physically and mentally challenging (walking pretty much everywhere, slogging through everyday interactions with my limited French), and the entire experience was deeply satisfying in a way that surprised me. Now that I'm home, back at work, and pretty much back to my normal routine, I feel like something in me has changed significantly, but my surroundings are still the same.
What is this about? How do you overcome these feelings when you get home?
Submitted March 28, 2019 at 07:34PM by messy_mortal https://ift.tt/2WtLulG
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