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I can’t stress enough how everything BREAKS when you choose a very different path in life from everyone else you know. It doesn’t have to be awful, though. I think there’s a good chance that once you get over it a little you find it’s really liberating to start from scratch. I’m just not sure how to get over it a little just yet. It’s really weird to feel like a stranger in the place I lived for 30 years.
I had this same sort of feeling when I came home, to a certain extent. I’d only been gone 6 months, so I’m sure it wasn’t as severe as yours, but there was still this weird sense of not being on the same.. level as everyone back home. Not in a ‘I’ve lived overseas, I’m so worldly’ way, just the fact that they’d been here, doing things together, and I’d been away, doing things with people they didn’t know. Our lives had been completely seperate for 6 months, and that was a weird thing to get used to. I was really lucky though. It only took about a week to slot straight back into my friends. I’m sure if you got back into a regular routine, you’d be back into it before you knew it.
