Come to a foreign place, where everything seems to be unfamiliar and not known, where we feel alienated and miss our home the most. It is not necessary to be us who couldn’t speak and failed to blend with the groups, but us who are not able to accept and let go. Remembering first moved in and enrolled into new school, attitude changed from a girl who once not afraid of getting involved in arguments and fights to a girl who minds her own business and sweeps the floor whenever she is early. Certainly, things changed later on when new friends are found, where she is back on track, including fighting the opposite gender; when she finally accepts the fact that she has to move on and let go, with the help of the soon to be familiar faces who started their first conversation. Perhaps some may find it as easy as a piece of cake when it comes to socializing as all we have to do is to speak up and smile. True enough but, how many tend to have the smiles off their faces when the crowd is gone? Blending in might not be the root of the alienation we are going through after all, but our hearts which determine us and the following paths. We need something to hold onto in order to stay, be it a group of people or simply a dream coming true; we need to be home in order to feel home, be it with the biological family or the opposite; the time will comes when we are ready to let go, when we finally blended in.
