I think in many ways returning to my home country after 13 months away will be stranger than leaving, mainly because I wanted to leave Britain since the age of 14, so it's kinda like breaking out of prison then going back. Not only that, but "home country" is being used very loosely. It's not the country I'm married in, employed in, have a mortgage in, or paying taxes in...so it's nothing more than a birthplace to me. Is it weird that the return ticket dated 7 days later comforts me so much?
Maybe it's just a case of me wanting to leave so much, that by the time I did, I started making my own luck - but it does seem strange that the British BoneyCork was an unemployed wow-playing, porn-fapping anti-social loser, but the Chinese BoneyCork is a married, super-social, homeowning, fast-track promotion employee who loves every single day in his life.
It's for that reason that I told my parents that I'm coming back this time out of obligation, but I won't be coming back again for at least 2 years. Can't really believe I'm going to live out the rest of my life as an expat in China of all places, but nothing else could make me happier
