The concept paper of many errors
Heim I throw my pillow , once, twice, and I don’t know how many times, and then I’ll gonna pick it up, hug it and cry. I have that feeling of an empty space, of unusual things and emotions. I cried all day long during that first Saturday here at the University, it was like my eardrums would break anytime because of the unusual noise and my heart is gonna explode because of a pain that I can’t explain. Suddenly, my dormmates comforted me, with their line “homesick lang yan girl, unti unti ka rin masasanay”. “Homesick, homesick, homesick…!”. The word kept echoing on my ears. Homesick is normal for most college students who will stay in dormitories, and will leave their home, some for the first time, and I am one of them. As routine is replaced by social and academic pressure, an environment full of strangers, and a totally different sounds going in and out of ears- the feeling of longing for my family and my home became stronger- the thing that they call homesickness. In a paper co-written by Chris Thurber and Edward Walton published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, homesickness is defined as "distress and functional impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home and attachment objects such as parents." Homesickness is a translation of the a German word Heimweh, from Heim "home" + Weh "woe, pain;" the compound is from Swiss dialect, expressing the longing for the mountains. It is entirely different from the terms, stomachache, or headache, it doesn’t mean that you’re home is sick, you are sick because of your home. As a child, we develop attachments to our parents or with the people and around us. As time passes by, we become dependent with these. Having those attachments created a problem when children attend camps and conferences, and most commonly with youth who are entering college. Homesickness can be associated with feelings of nostalgia, grief, depression and