Reflections

It is almost impossible to forget one’s country of birth. The migrants carry a lot of memories of their homeland in their heart. Some of them are good and some are bad. Many of these memories are old and migrants keep the old image of their homeland in their imagination. The countries that they left move on and change with time, but the countries remain the same in migrants’ imagination. People remember their childhood spent in their countries of birth. They remember their friends, relatives, their good and bad times in their countries of origin. Initially these memories haunt them, but they fade with time.

There are a lot of things that can trigger migrants’ memories. If a migrant sees something different in the new country, he or she compares it to what it was like in his or her country. Therefore, even small things can remind them of their homeland. Any special occasion or celebration can remind somebody of the good times he or she had in his or her country. Sometimes, if I talk to my family over the phone and they tell me about something that happened back home, it makes me sad because sometimes I just want to be there with them. If you are alone in a new country, anything like even looking at a family having good times together can make you home sick. But sometimes, there are also bad memories of homeland that a migrant would never want to come the surface. Some people move because their live are risk. If they arrive in a safe country, they would never want to be reminded of the hardships they faced.