Leaving Home With A One Way Ticket

February 17, 2018

Keith Donnelly

You know, I've either had a family, a job, something has always been in the way.

But now I've sold my house, I've found this place, a large studio, you should see the space and the light.

For the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and the time to create.

No baby, if you're going to create you're going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you're going to create in a small room with 3 children while you're on welfare.

You're going to create with part of your mind and your body blown away, you're going to create blind crippled demented, you're going to create with a cat crawling up your back while the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment, flood and fire.

Baby, air and light and time and space have nothing to do with it and don't create anything except maybe a longer life to find new excuses for.

- Charles Bukowski

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In today’s Western Culture, it has become not only more acceptable, but also much more common within society for young people to leave their homes to start a new chapter in another country across the ocean.

Traditionally this would have been highly frowned upon, and is still looked down upon, or simply does not happen within certain communities and cultures. It is seen as a betrayal to the loyalty of one’s family, and in many cases they might disown their child for such an act.

However, for North American and European cultures mostly, it can almost be said that it has become the norm to finish school and then pick another country to study, work or chase love.

For these modern western societies, leaving one’s family by choice and not for greater financial opportunities is no longer so frowned upon. The trendy state of mind of today is to let your children flourish and spread their wings.

It is no longer as encouraged to be a parent that is overprotective and sets too many rules. Families are now able to understand, or encouraged to do at least, that leaving does not always mean abandoning, but rather seeking adventure and learn more about the world. It does not come out of anger or out a bad place, but simply a desire to experience life otherwise.

With so many jobs offering relocation positions, or universities offering study abroad programs, moving away completely alone and starting fresh is no taboo concept like it once was. Traveling has found new bounds, and curious young minds are not considered to be lost wanderlust souls, but rather brave and independent.

Young teenagers moving back to their country of origin is also a very popular trend in recent years. Perhaps children want to live somewhere else, experience something new, whilst still feeling comfortable and a part of home, and as though they can relate to the people, understand or improve the language and trace back to their original roots.