Roots
I'm visiting the motherland right now, it's been over 1.5 years since I have. As much as I was really, really, really looking forward to escaping the snow and bitter cold in Canada, I have to admit that I'm feeling extra hot ever since I landed. Which brings me to the topic of today's post: my roots.
My roots is and always will be Singapore - I was born and brought up here, everything I am today I owe to my country, my family and my friends from here. But this trip feels a little different... for the first time, I feel a little, tiny little, twinge of missing Canada. Usually when I'm in Singapore, it's like - Canada who?!?!
I think it just comes from the undeniable fact that now, I am starting to grow roots in Canadian soil as well, starting to relate and grow familiar with things and people over there as well.
But that comes with it's own pains... I read this quote somewhere, and it should properly sum up what I'm trying to say:
"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."
- Miriam Adeney
My roots is and always will be Singapore - I was born and brought up here, everything I am today I owe to my country, my family and my friends from here. But this trip feels a little different... for the first time, I feel a little, tiny little, twinge of missing Canada. Usually when I'm in Singapore, it's like - Canada who?!?!
I think it just comes from the undeniable fact that now, I am starting to grow roots in Canadian soil as well, starting to relate and grow familiar with things and people over there as well.
But that comes with it's own pains... I read this quote somewhere, and it should properly sum up what I'm trying to say:
"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."
- Miriam Adeney
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