Sometimes I feel like I left a big part of my heart in New Zealand. I truly felt alive when Dre and I would walk down to Mangawhai's beach, or we'd play in the ocean. Once we kissed by the moonlight on the beach, and it was more peaceful than anything I could imagine.
I'll be honest: I would go back to New Zealand in a heartbeat if my parents and Dre's parents were to say, "What the hell! Let's relocate too!" If Dre and I were to immigrate to NZ, it would be for good. Maybe we could come home during the summers and what not, but we'd be centralized in NZ. The thing keeping me here is that I know our families will want to be around when we have kids, and I will want to be here to take care of our parents when they get older.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Longing
Posted by swallowtail10 at 2:35 PM
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I know EXACTLY what you mean. I was so at peace in Ireland, it's not even funny. So far, they've been the best three weeks of my life...
who's to say you can't live there UNTIL you have kids?
I felt the same way about being in the UK for 6 weeks. A lot of measurable factors were pretty much the same there as here, but I felt like I experienced things a lot more. Or something. Things are just - different here. More structured. More complicated. More pressured.
Maybe modern technology will produce a better way to travel more cheaply and quickly, making some of those factors (hard to see and take care of family) go away or diminish? (Or maybe easier travel would make other countries seem or become less attractive...)
Yeah, I know . . . in New Zealand, things just seemed slower pace. And this might sound like a trivial reason, but I fell in love with being so close to the sea and its creatures.
I know bringing our animals over (two cats, one dog) would be expensive, and we'd probably have to place them in quarantine for a while. In any case, I'd still like to go back for another extended visit. We met a guy from Holland who was road biking all around the North Island, and a couple from England who were walking from the tip of the North Island to the end of the South Island, so maybe something like that next time around . . .
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