Find the Familiar

So, I don't want to turn this blog into "My Immigration Experience.com" as I'll find a different arena to do that. However, I can't help sharing on what I am experiencing at this moment which may or may not echo similar sentiments with anyone facing change of any sort.

Besides finding myself in a foreign land with foreign people and an almost foreign dialect, I constantly see things that are so familiar. Things I organically recognise and know. I am finding this especially true in people. I am constantly seeing people that are almost identical to those I left behind. There is a Butch, there is a Sean, there is Johan, there is even a Dr. Isaacs! I am sure there is a psychological reason why this is happening to me.  Perhaps this is a coping mechanism to bring me some comfort in this strange and unfamiliar place, I don't know. Maybe it's something completely new and the Psychological Council will allow me name it. I'll call it "The Doppelganger Theory".
What ever it is called, it made me delve a bit deeper, beyond than just the uncanniness of seeing these faces that I "know".

How often do we find ourselves a little lost and alone? Perhaps in circumstances that make no sense or just alone in this frenzied world. Often, even instinctively, we turn to something familiar. Making a meal mom used to make, listening to music reminiscent of a certain era in your life. Watching a favourite movie. Just some of the ways we can find the familiar and comfort ourselves with memories of a time when it was "all right". Remind ourselves that it will be all right again. I say "Find the familiar", it's not a weakness to do so. It can actually be used as a strength if you can recognise the time when you need that injection of "all right". Rather than suppressing it, pretending to adult-up and pushing on, stop, find the familiar and boost yourself on to the "all right".