On being an expat

I've been an expat for the last 13 years. First in Europe and now in the Middle East and who knows where else I may end up.

Today I have been pondering on what being an expat means to me and here are a few thoughts.

• I have friends from all corners of the world
• tho my friends come and go all the time
• I don't consider “going back home” a holiday
• I have a very lose concept of what is home
• I think in a different language than my own
• my everyday language is not my native lingo
• flying between continents feels just like jumping on a taxi, distances have become relative
• every day is a new adventure
• the internet is my lifeline (to keep in touch, to feel connected)
  

The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign (Alfred Polger)