Good bye for now.

Saying 'Good bye' to the loved ones and leaving the place where our blood started pumping from have never been easy and this time was absolutely same hard. Especially, when we have to pretend that we can't see our mothers' tears and let them down with these repeatable farewells, I don't really know why we have chosen to live far apart from them. For now all we can do is blaming the uncontrollable life and accept the reality.

After 3 weeks (20 days) of staying in Czech, we have left his home town this morning and we are heading to Prague for flying to our next destination, Zurich in Switzerland. This is my forth time to visit Czech and each time his mother farewells us in tears. Having parents especially when they're getting old far away from us is one of the hardest and also saddest thing but as we all know that our life is not always easy to control so we had to say goodbye again this time, and hope the next visit will come soon.

At the airport waiting room, he sighted "I am already homesick..." I know exactly how he feels like at the moment as I will be the one in 3 weeks time. After 4 days in Zurich, we will be in Korea, my country to see my family, relatives and friends and I will need to say goodbye to all.

Funny enough saying good bye to the loved ones are getting harder as I am getting older. Each time I realise that parents are much order than last time and I feel more guilty for leaving them far away. Also, I enjoy more about time and things at home. Even I start liking things that I didn't like before. A smelly traditional soup I didn't even try to put a spoon in when I was young became the most delicious food ever and the busy and messy traditional markets are more desirable places to go. Aging changes many things especially my perspectives and feelings on my mother land and its culture.

Living far away from home countries and staying away from families have been never easy and unfortunately It gets worse every visit. However, we know that we need to go back to reality, accept the fact where we are currently belonging to and move on. Maybe, our two and half months of travel made us bit more emotional and take things more seriously.

I don't want to be nagging about our current position that doesn't allow us to live close to our families as it wouldn't help us anyway. It is always such a pleasure to visit our countries and feel being belonged while we are staying there. If we never lived in another country, we would never realise how much we are privileged to be born in our countries so I better take our circumstances positively.

We are now heading to Zurich, our next destination in order to continue the rest of our journey. My poor husband's shoulders are down and his mind must be fighting with this repeatable separation with his parents, sibling and friends, but I believe that his heart would be filled by unforgettable and joyful moments. The memory will keep him going until he returns. 'Good bye for now.... We will be back soon....'