For the amount of time spent here in Doha, it just occurred to me that I wanted something familiar – a familiar person, feeling, relationship, place, etc.
All we could resort to is a temporary remedy considering the country we are in and being an overseas Filipino worker is to hang out with colleagues or some friends we met outside work, to ease our loneliness of missing our family back home. Sadly, this isn’t always the solution because you can be in a crowd full of good vibes yet you’ll find yourself staring or being lost in the void.
This kind of feeling of wanting to have the familiar may seldom take place in your daily routine as you go on living your life as an OWF but when it transpires, it will surely hit you hard right to your core. Wanting the familiars in your life is completely normal because they or it is the only therapy you ever need to go through a certain bump in your life.
Sure, we can text them, call them or even video chat with them but sometimes it isn’t enough. You need them to be there physically. An intimate relationship you know that could ease your troubles. A person you know for the longest time whom you can confide to without the fear of being judged. A group of people you can hang out with and party till you drop without feeling uncomfortable. So what I am trying to say is basically just the feels of having something/someone familiar. It is just hard to get by sometimes when you know they or it is far out of your reach.
Wish I could be with my familiars now. I need a hug, a tight one. *sigh*
Signing off.