Lame assignment/essay thing

What do people miss most about their own country and culture when they go abroad?

There comes a time in every traveler’s journey when they are forced to take a look back at where they came from (in the case discussed here: their home country) and collate the experiences they have had there with the ones that they have recently acquired in their new environment. This period of cogitation (which can be either long or brief, depending on the individual) upon the differences between a person’s home country and their new, usually temporary location in the world may sometimes have an adverse effect on the state of mind of the traveler – the person might start to miss something from back home. But what are the things that a layman migrant may miss most when said migrant is abroad?

Unfortunately mankind has not yet evolved to a state of collective consciousness and it is therefore impossible for anyone to tell what people may or may not miss when they are in another country without assuming that all people share the same mentality, personality, values and overall impression on life. With this in mind it is both inane and futile to ask a person to say what they think people miss the most when they are abroad because there are now almost 7 billion representatives of the human race out there – also 7 billion minds with various things they may or may not miss. Most things can’t be proven without sufficient evidence and such is also the case with the subject at hand.

But if one were to set the aforementioned counterproductive arguments aside, considering all that as just a minor digression from the main subject, and look at the broader picture – mankind in general – then some common denominators between people here and there could be found with regards to “missing things when abroad”. For example, an edified spirit would not miss anything at all from their home country because only the ignorant choose to mentally embellish one small section of the fishbowl (where they were born) over another section of the fishbowl (where they just haven’t happened to have been before) and brood over their temporary absence from the first of the two – it’s the same fishbowl regardless of one’s location at a given time.

To conclude this schizophrenic menagerie of mostly unrelated statements, it has to be said that a considerable amount of people probably miss their friends and family the most because they are really the only reasons for a normal person to function at all.