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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoTim Dowling: I've already used up all my optimism for the year. What now?
I am sitting in my office shed, cut off from the house by a driving rain. The misery and boredom of the English winter is, I have to admit, beginning to get to me. I spent January talking about the days getting longer, and used up all my optimism. For the last 10 minutes I've been scrolling through the website of my American home town newspaper, which is full of pictures of the recent snowfall over a foot, with more predicted in the coming days. Extreme weather has a tendency to make me homesick I hate to miss a hurricane.
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Relationships
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks agoI moved in with my partner after college. No one told me how much I'd miss living with my best friends.
Moving from a tight-knit college house to living with a partner produced unexpected grief and longing, prompting a gradual effort to embrace the present.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoHomesickness is a form of loss which may never grant closure. But a heart in two places can still find joy | Gaynor Parkin
Extended visits home intensified Suzanne's sense of dislocation, causing grief over missing ordinary family moments and deepening longing for physical presence.
Relationships
fromBusiness Insider
3 months agoMy boyfriend and I moved from Minnesota to Oregon on a whim. I hated it for the first year, but I stuck it out anyway.
After moving from Minnesota to Oregon, initial isolation gave way to regained confidence, active efforts to build community, and a renewed appreciation for Oregon.
fromBusiness Insider
3 months agoI graduated from college and moved to a new city alone. Despite my best efforts, I'm ready to go home.
That was the mindset I had when I decided to take a job opportunity in Pittsburgh and live alone for the first time, shortly after graduating from Syracuse University. Although I'm used to pushing myself outside my comfort zone - I moved halfway across the country for college and studied abroad alone - this move felt different. My friends were supportive, saying that if anyone could move and start over, it'd be me,
Mental health
Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
4 months agoI was lucky enough to land a full-time job before graduating from college. But I wasn't prepared for the real world.
Graduating and starting a full-time job created emotional loss, reduced social freedom, and difficulty adjusting from college routines to adult responsibilities.
Medicine
fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoI'm a first-year medical student at Stanford. From working on cadavers to 12-hour lecture days, this is what a week in my life is like.
Starting medical school at Stanford involves intense coursework and cadaver labs, homesickness for family across the country, and forming a supportive new community.
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