2015 was a great year for me. It was a year for new beginnings in a country that I had never been to before. A country that was across the world from the places I had grown up in, the places I had become a young lady in. Watching Brooklyn brought back memories of the fear I went through when I was a first time immigrant. Would I be alright? Would I be able to find a new life for myself? The path I was interested in taking seemed like it would be one that was best for me, but I had no way of knowing for sure.
It took me time and a few buckets of tears before I felt like I could settle in. There were moments of sadness when nothing felt right and it made me question my decision of leaving behind everything and everyone I loved to come to this strange, unknown place. It was the coldest I had ever been in my life (physically and emotionally). Homesickness. That was what people said it was. They all said it would become normal eventually.
I met people, and slowly but surely, I came out of my little hole. There were times where like the protagonist of the movie, I felt like my body was there but my heart was elsewhere. With time, it moved somewhere in between the Pacific/Atlantic (really depends on which way you want to travel across the globe). There are still times when I pine for my past and wonder what my world would have looked like if I had stayed in Asia.
Maybe going back would show me why I chose to leave in the first place or maybe it would just remind me of reasons I should stay. The movie beautifully captures this conundrum. There are so many things that could possibly hold you back in the past, and your decisions are heavily affected by whether you choose to stay in your past and make your future there or take that risk and move on. Leave your past behind and choose to make a new life for yourself.
Because at the end of the day, despite the homesickness and all the nostalgia, "One day you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past, and you'll realize that this is where your life is." When I reflect on what the past year has helped me achieve, it truly makes me realize that this where I would like my future to be. Whether or not that would be possible, remains to be seen.
Overall, I would highly recommend you watch this movie, because almost everyone has a similar story that you can relate to, even if you didn't travel all around the world.
P.S. Saoirse Ronan is so beautiful and has performed extraordinarily well. Your heart breaks with hers and the way she carries you through the movie is simply fantastic.
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It took me time and a few buckets of tears before I felt like I could settle in. There were moments of sadness when nothing felt right and it made me question my decision of leaving behind everything and everyone I loved to come to this strange, unknown place. It was the coldest I had ever been in my life (physically and emotionally). Homesickness. That was what people said it was. They all said it would become normal eventually.
I met people, and slowly but surely, I came out of my little hole. There were times where like the protagonist of the movie, I felt like my body was there but my heart was elsewhere. With time, it moved somewhere in between the Pacific/Atlantic (really depends on which way you want to travel across the globe). There are still times when I pine for my past and wonder what my world would have looked like if I had stayed in Asia.
Maybe going back would show me why I chose to leave in the first place or maybe it would just remind me of reasons I should stay. The movie beautifully captures this conundrum. There are so many things that could possibly hold you back in the past, and your decisions are heavily affected by whether you choose to stay in your past and make your future there or take that risk and move on. Leave your past behind and choose to make a new life for yourself.
Because at the end of the day, despite the homesickness and all the nostalgia, "One day you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past, and you'll realize that this is where your life is." When I reflect on what the past year has helped me achieve, it truly makes me realize that this where I would like my future to be. Whether or not that would be possible, remains to be seen.
Overall, I would highly recommend you watch this movie, because almost everyone has a similar story that you can relate to, even if you didn't travel all around the world.
P.S. Saoirse Ronan is so beautiful and has performed extraordinarily well. Your heart breaks with hers and the way she carries you through the movie is simply fantastic.
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