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Reestablishing Routines and Relationships

You may feel a sense of disbelief as you head to the airport for your last flight - the flight home - on the last leg of a successful RTW trip. If you were gone for a month, you may feel like it will be easy to get back into some routines - preparing for work in the morning, going to the gym, meeting up with friends, or others. If you were gone for a more lengthy amount of time, say six months to a year, you may feel a bit like a stranger in a foreign land - in your own home city.

The GoRoundTheWorld.com webpage which discusses reverse culture shock addresses feelings which surround things which may have changed at home during the course of one’s journey. However, there is also a likelihood that you may be the one who has changed, not others. For example, you may hear the local accent where you are from for the first time. Enjoy it all - these are sensations that will go away quickly enough!

When you arrive home, be sure to have time set aside to catch up with family or friends. You can compare stories (theirs and yours) of things that have happened since you originally departed. Regardless of whether you or others may have changed, you will likely find that family are family, and friends are friends - they’ll be there for the long haul. In an odd way, your journey, especially if you’ve stayed in touch with loved ones throughout, may have strengthened some old relationships.

If you developed new physical, mental, or spiritual routines during your journey which satisfy you, then build them into your daily living back home. If, after you first departed on your RTW trip, you found that you left behind some routines that you’ve since learned you can do without, now is the time to make the change permanent. For those, simply do not pick up where you left off.

Change can be a positive experience which serves to develop one’s self in beneficial ways. And if you actually notice how you may have changed, well, then, you now have the ability to decide whether it has been for better or worse. And that is a truly an opportunity to enjoy and take advantage of.

As you rebuild your routines back home, try to allow yourself some flexibility to take on new activities or even to start a side business. As time reveals what you have learned from your extensive travels, a little flexibility will allow you to take on new things when the time is right.