Familiar and beloved still, they were simultaneously strange and unknown. In retrospect, this and the astonished look worn by my aunt in light of my grandfather’s car rental served as precursors for the revelations to come. Staying with my family during the visit, the lucid honesty of all I took for granted came crashing through my body true as the blood coursing amidst my veins. Warm water, toilet paper, electricity: small nuances and seeming necessities in the U.S. stood as the highest scarcities in my country. Among other things, these discrepancies in lifestyle left me with a certain disillusioned epiphany: though my heart would always remain with my family and childhood home, I was no longer from one place but a conglomerate of all those I had or would someday
Familiar and beloved still, they were simultaneously strange and unknown. In retrospect, this and the astonished look worn by my aunt in light of my grandfather’s car rental served as precursors for the revelations to come. Staying with my family during the visit, the lucid honesty of all I took for granted came crashing through my body true as the blood coursing amidst my veins. Warm water, toilet paper, electricity: small nuances and seeming necessities in the U.S. stood as the highest scarcities in my country. Among other things, these discrepancies in lifestyle left me with a certain disillusioned epiphany: though my heart would always remain with my family and childhood home, I was no longer from one place but a conglomerate of all those I had or would someday