quarta-feira, 6 de junho de 2012

Making peace with problems to focus on solutions

Ever since day 1 I've been struggling with the whole homestay thing.
I arrive home at 11pm so I'll just take some pills and fall asleep. I had a small argument with my host mother and my home father just annoys me, to say the least (and we've seen each other twice!)
At first, it felt like they were disrespectful, or that once I got here and they got their money for hosting me all the masks fell and there were their true faces.
Not true, any of it. I came to my mind one thing that my host mother said "I have you as my kids, so you can have me as your mother, and mothers tell kids what to do, what not to do, and they don't get offended all the time, do they?"
As much as I might disagree at some level with what she said, I indeed paid for a homestay, with a mother, a father and two brothers. Brothers are cool, parents aren't. And they even try to make you feel as if you were home.
So what is it that feels wrong?
Me! Of course! No, I'm not trying to put the guilt on myself so I' just have to suck it up and live here.
But I knew from the moment I sold my car that I was my own grown man making my own way to whatever it was that my destiny would take me. And that definetly involved getting rid of all kinds of parents' control. So I didn't come here to stay in a homestay, and here I am. So once again I find myself displaced.
What I want right now? Share a place with students. People that are going through their own shit, and just want to share the rent, deal with their own shit and eventually bond. What I want is to live in an Spanish Apartment. Young people looking for themselves that ended up meeting and sharing a place, filling it with their dreams, expectations and cheerful spirits.
If I don't find it, a room would be fine by now... a place to spend at least 2 more months. Which brings to my mind the biggest challenge of them all. How can a Cancer person not have a home? Home... at some point, this is one of the things I'm looking for...
So here it is... problem figured out, solution defined, now it's the time to make it happen. Along with all the tons of things I have to do...
God... I think I had no idea what I was putting myself into but here I am. Thank you and please keep on helping me!


 

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