7 Signs You Have Been Away From Home For Awhile

There is always ways to know when it’s time to leave for a new country, itchy feet, screaming at random people on the street because they are just there and irritating the hell out of you and random signals from some sort of higher power. But while there are many signs to leave, there are also some ways to signal when you have been away from home too long as well.

 

You don’t have an accent anymore

Or at least you have been told, because everyone knows that they actually can’t hear their own accent. A common phenomenon that you can really see when watching TV as I have found that listening to an Australian on TV that is surrounded by Americans, such as on House, we can really see we have a really weird accent.

But the thing is that while you have been told that you don’t have an accent anymore it’s because you have been around too many cultures so now you have a sort of weird mix of accents that make you sound like a little bit of an idiot.

 

You don’t know what’s happening back home

At first you would have checked every newspaper around the world to see what the other countries were reporting about your home country. But now you don’t pay attention to your own home country so much so that you have even forgotten what it looks like just a tiny bit.

You have also forgotten who exactly your Prime Minister is.

As an Australian forgetting who our Prime Minister is isn’t actually something attributed to travelling, mostly they are always fairly forgetful; ask anyone around Australia who the Prime Minster is, most of them will have trouble. That’s why no one actually knows outside Australia either. I mean honestly we actually lost a Prime Minister. Look up Harold Holt on the Internet, he used to be our Prime Minister before he went out to the beach and was never seen again.

 

You haven’t seen the relatives for awhile

It used to be that you would see them at every major event in the calendar, now it’s a lucky time if you actually manage to get back home for Christmas.

 

You find out that new relatives were created while you were gone

You have been gone so long that not only have a few people died while you were away, there is also five year old cousin that you didn’t even know existed let along is that old. You have been away for an especially long time if they are actually a niece or nephew.

 

You find your own culture a bit weird

It’s kind of like reverse culture shock mixed in with relatives you thought weren’t quite as strange as before. Going out you thought that cultures around the world were a little off, but once exploring them for a good long while you come back and realise perhaps you were the ones that didn’t have it quite right in the first place.

 

You have mostly forgotten where you live.

You get back to your hometown and you have to go to the tourism office. You know you live around here somewhere; it’s just the somewhere that bothers you.

 

Your home doesn’t feel like home

You get back to your own home, or your parents home which is where you usually crash after a particularly long jaunt around the world, and it no longer feels as though you have lived there all your life. It just feels like a country that you have spent a lot of time in over the years but not a home. A humbling feeling most of the time it just gets you back out into the world faster which can only be a good thing.

 

You wonder why people need so much stuff

When travelling around you keep very little of your own and you can’t imagine people filling up a whole house with things when you can live a great life with just a backpack.

 

There are a lot of other reasons and situations you will find that proves that you have been away from home for awhile, these are simply just the start.

Is there any that I have missed? Something that you have encountered that really proved that you have been away for awhile. Please share them in the comments.

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