Lost in ... Nationality

Sense of belonging. An important notion that we all thrive to achieve in the best means we have. Once we are integrated in a certain population or group, we feel safety; an essential component of one's life. Whatever that group was, we still find shelter there among them. We still feel backed up when all life's doors are blocked and its ways twist. Sense of belonging is a way to acquiring Nationality, a term that protects the person from all the dangers that pop up in this highly bordered world.

Nationality is not just holding a passport. Its concept is deeper and more ramified than it appears. It's a combination of geography, history, culture, heritage, education, and people. To feel Nationalistic, you should have part of each of the total whole. Sometimes we lose parts of some, but yet we still feel the essence of it. But in other occasions, due to circumstances that couldn't be faced and couldn't be changed, the feeling of a great lack of the sense of belonging in the land and in the group is felt, and this implies on the nation we hold its passport as a whole.

This is a horrible feeling, I don't envy anyone who feels it, but yet it's a reality that faces some of the people we see everyday but they hide it inside, they don't want to become exposed or feel naked in front of the group. Integration here is lacked and there lies the problem. When the memories of the place and the friends and the family are loosened and don't have the strength to bind us to the nation, we start searching for the place that will fulfill our need for safety and belonging. This journey doesn’t stop. It's the instinct that drives us as humans, as it drives animals, to integrate in a group and be one with them.

Confusion should be paused; concentration on the elements that mean to us may help to formulate the puzzle that will form the whole road map. Until that moment comes, we remain in a fierce struggle; a struggle for the search of our own identity, for our own nationality, for our own history and future at the same time. Once you know the future upon which you will project your past, then you definitely found the way; Thus your life becomes steady.