Homesickness is a sickness with silent symptoms - missing, longing, feeling anxious and lonely. It is painful. Unfortunately, like cancer patients, only the sufferers feel how painful it is. Other people may think they know, but they can never really feel it. My illness was very serious at first. I missed not just a family or a place but a whole country - everything that I am comfortable with, the language that I speak, the …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…good. I am making improvement, not fast but gradually. Homesickness is a valuable gift given only to home-leavers. Its power and beauty are the perfect compensation for the "sickness" we experience. Perhaps it is one of a very few sicknesses that the patients themselves do not want to be cured of completely. Or at least, I never do. I want to sing the song of homesickness, and praise and feel its beauty, all my life.