Dealing with Homesickness
Hey guys!
Before getting on with the
actual topic of today’s post I wanted to first explain how this blog is going
to work.
So, every week there will
be at least 2 blog posts. One on Tuesdays from me and one on Fridays by Romane.
These two blog posts will have weekly themes. This week’s theme is…Dealing with
homesickness! Whether it is because you are away at college or studying abroad
or at camp or some vacation we are here this week to give you guys some tips.
Besides these two themed blog
posts, there will be blog posts to correspond with video uploads which will be
every Monday.
Okay I think that is all,
let us gets started with this week’s theme!
Homesickness, according to
Wikipedia, is defined as “the distress or impairment caused by an actual or
anticipated separation from home”.
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| I miss you *cries in a corner* |
Basically guys, homesickness
is when you miss home and feel sucky when you are away from it.
For me, homesickness was
very much a big part of my struggle into college. It still is if I’m being
honest. Before college, the longest time I was away from my family was the 10
days I spent with my school for a trip to Italy. Otherwise I spent a lot of
time with my family, both my immediate and extended. I was accustomed to see my
cousins and aunt and uncles almost every single weekend. Growing up my friends
were my cousins. So being the first one to really go away to college was
super-de-duper scary for me.
Still, against every fiber
of my being I left. I left for New York and my new life at college. I am a
senior now but still every break that I am home I end up asking my mother if I
can transfer to a college closer to home. I can’t help it.
That being said, it didn’t
let my fear stop me from study abroad for an ENTIRE semester. I was away from
my family for five whole months. It was hard but to this day studying abroad
was the best thing I have done in my life so far. I met some of my bestest
friends and had some amazing experiences.
So with all of my homesick
experience in mind here is my advice for dealing with the homesickness:
- Breath
- When you start getting those homesick feelings it is
important to take a second to breath. Sometime the emotions may overwhelm
you and make you feel helpless and alone. You might actually forget to
breath so breath.
- Talk
- After you have breathed and made sure you can live
then it’s time to talk. Talk to your family or friends that you miss or
talk to someone who is nearby.
- For me, I learned that talking at this point is good
but talking to regularly actually makes me more homesick. So I don’t call
everyday but I do text. So find whatever is comfortable for you and do
that. It’s important to talk to those you miss but if it’s only making
you more homesick then maybe take a step back
- Think
- Once you have come down from all the feels. Think
about why you had those feels. Most homesickness is only temporary. You
will get through it. But if it is something that persists and continues
to make your life miserable then maybe there is something else there.
- Just remember do what makes you happy and don’t
sacrifice yourself if you are unhappy but also do not let your homesickness
get in the way of something you want to do.
- Remember: You can do this. You can get through this.
- Extra
Tips:
- Some things that I like to do when I start to get
homesick is:
- Call my Mami
- Go for a walk
- Have a dance party/listen to music (maybe even sad
music)
- Watch a show or movie
- Watch YouTube videos
- Read
- Make plans for when the next I will be going home.
Sometimes planning can help you feel better. A countdown helps makes
things exciting instead of scary.
So there you have it, all
of my tips and tricks for sickness of the home. I hope you guys enjoyed and
please don’t forget to leave me a little comment telling me how you deal with
homesickness.
Ooh let us know if you want
to see a video on this topic as well!
Until next time lovelies!
-Geraldine
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Hello my fellow blog readers!
Firstly:: I’m sorry I haven’t written in two weeks…like wow.
We were 1 week in and I already failed. Eek. But for the record—I did write it.
I just didn’t post it. Because I didn’t finish. Okay. Well here’s what I had
about homesickness:
So la Bigsis (aka Geraldine) explained in her first blog
post that the way we are going to run this blog is by having a different theme
each from which to base our blog posts on. As well as our diary posts which
will be random and yadda yadda yadda yeah.
So this week’s theme (in case you didn’t already know) is:
Home Sickness.
As you may have seen in our five facts video on our Youtube
channel, la Bigsis and I live in Northern Virginia but go to school in New
York. So we understand, to some extent, what it’s like to live away from home. I don’t know how many of you lovely folks are in college or
just live on your own already but let me tell you some things that I do when
I’m feeling home sick: (Disclaimer: I don’t necessarily recommend these—it’s
just what I do)
1. Wallow in my sadness
That’s right. I tend to roll out my yoga mat and just
sit/lay on it.
2. Play a sad songs playlist from spotify
I mean if I’m gonna be sad I’m going to really engulf myself
in these emotions and I feel most when I’m listening to music. So I blast that
sad soundtrack!
3. Movie time: Clueless
One of my favorites! I watch Clueless. Or something on
Netflix.
4. Call my mother…eventually.
I eventually, inevitably, call my Mami in the hopes that
maybe…she can bring me out of this funk and get me into my usual optimistic vision.
But she usually only makes me miss her more.
5. Call Abbie
Abbie is our little cousin, she’s around 10 I think. (Well
now she’s 11). Shiz she’s getting old. And I love her to bits so I’ll call her.
But she doesn’t answer her phone much—I mean shocker right, she’s 10 11.
It’s really more of an emergency phone.
6. Text my Homies
I text my best friends! If I’m really, really at an All Time
Low ;)—which usually happens at the end of the semester, I’ll call. It’s good
to talk to people when you’re feeling sad, at least for me it is. If I don’t
chat with someone I’ll be stuck at stage 1 foreveeeeer.
7. YouTube
After all is said and done I’m needing to be inspired and
get back in the groove again—I will go the You of Tube. I’ll watch a shizton of
music videos—that yes might make me cry and get all my emotions out—I’ll also
catch up on my subscriptions (because I’m usually always behind) and I’ll
giggle it up until I’m feeling better.
8. Sleep
I always sleep after this rollercoaster of homesickness that
usually end up feeling the most on Friday/Saturday nights. I sleep it all off.
Because even though sadness and missing someone isn’t something we all like to
feel—it is good feel those things. You can’t be happy and uppity all the time,
it isn’t healthy (I don’t think it is at least). So when I’m sad, I embrace it
and move on. (Although if we were talking about anger, I might not say the same
thing *insert monkey covering eyes emoji*.
Anywaysssss, hope you have a lovely day/night! Until the
next post—see ya!
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and follow us on Twitter/Instagram if you would like!
Laytah!
xx
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