How to deal with homesickness

@mayrah (1144)
United States
November 12, 2010 12:47am CST
Every people who have work very far from his or her family experience homesickness. My brother when she worked abroad as a seafarer he told me it was difficult to combat homesickness because, being a seafarer they stayed in the see most of the time, the environment was very strange compered to the place where we lived. The wave and gust of wind almost make them stumble when they walk. Meeting people from different nation and living and working with them is also strange. They have different attitudes,culture and principles in life. That factors all added to homesickness of a person who worked outside their country.He told me that he just think of his goals and reasons on why did he work there in the first place and that made him calm and and happy despite feeling of homesickness. We also text him encouraging messages to help him relieved from sadness. Though I have been told it was difficult I still dream to work outside my country one day. That's a dream for me.Hope one day I could realized that dream. Now If you can add some more to this discussion please share with us some tips on how to deal with homesickness.
3 responses
@cicisnana (772)
• United States
13 Nov 10
Oh, I would not want to work away from my family. I miss my daughter very much and only get to see her once or twice a month as she lives about 2 hours away, and when I go to visit her, I miss the others....it's a no win situation :(
@stevanny (18)
12 Nov 10
find some friends, find a new place that make you interest get some activities that make you more busy remember, you're there for your future and you'll come home soon to tell your family that you'll success in there
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Nov 10
I've never lived or worked so far away from my family that I wasn't able to visit with them when I got to the point that I missed them the most. However, knowing that the world is far more global today than it used to be, there are a lot of things that people are able to do when they are far away from their family. I think that I would definitely make sure that I invested in a web cam both for myself and for those people at the other end so that I would be able to see them when I missed them the most.