The Depths Of Abyss.

Where is home?. It's question I'm always hesitant to answer. My heart says one while my passport says another. I want to say I'm from two places at once but then it's weird because you don't belong truly in neither. I feel like a foreigner wherever I go. I feel like a visitor in my own country. I can't truly connect with any racial group because there is always a cultural disconnect. It's this feeling of being in limbo, neither here nor there. I know I'm not alone in this. I have many friends and people I've met in college who feel just the same. And then I discovered this term called " third culture kid".

Third culture kid is a term coined by an American sociologist named Ruth useem to refer to children who were raised in a culture other than their parents ' or the culture of their country of nationality, and also live in a different environment during a significant part of their child development years.

Such people often have difficulties forming an identity and often try to merge their parents culture and the adopted culture creating a new third culture.

Due to this extremely globalised world us TCK's exist in millions. We all share this unresolved grief and insecurity of not having a sense of belonging and a place to actually call home.

Maybe there should be psychological studies done on the phenomenon of third culture kids ? More books and literature? More representation on movies and arts ?