Gemma Spake

Any big emotion, you have to move through it rather than around it.

Homesickness is no different.

Anything you can do to feel it fully and then also feel

know that this is just kind of part of the story and know that this is maybe just the price you pay for an incredible life and for a big life.

This is the price you have to pay for a big life is missing home, missing maybe even multiple homes is a great mindset shift.

Speaking of a mindset shift, this is the one that I will leave you with.

as a final thought.

In your hardest times with this, in your hardest days, whether you're at college, whether you're traveling, whether you've just moved, I want you to remember that, and this is a weird thing I've noticed in my 20s, every great thing always asks us to give up something else we truly love and think is great.

There is always a trade-off.

Always.

this new city, this new opportunity is fantastic.

And it's going to be fantastic, but it's going to ask you to give up something else.

You can't be too greedy with it.

And the price that you are paying is homesickness, right?

And it's a brutal cost.

It's also temporary.

And the alternative, the comparison is the person that you know from high school, the person that you know from childhood, that you know from university,

who never did anything like this.

And who maybe hasn't experienced the low of this feeling, but also has never experienced the high of that first day where it just suddenly feels great.

Or the high of meeting somebody you never would have met if you'd stayed where you were.