A MYTH OF ORIGINS?
The problem with being a global worker is that there is always a confusion about where one is from and where one is coming from. The confusion arises when the question of "origin" is demanded. In said author's case, unable to differentiate my nationality, instead of where I am coming from, in a manner appropriate to its imperialist legacy left behind, the Japanese immigration procedures have decided that it is best to leave that category blank, and in their hands to decide. Thus the world nomad becomes a subaltern because she cannot fit into a suitable category and loses herself in the myth of origins.
It is a questions of identity and culture - also coined "Nomadology” in literary expressions of; once away from home, and having assimilated into the cultures outside, learning experience will change, such that you lose your "origin". We are made up of experiences which change us and mould us and we become different for those external and "foreign" influences. Soon, "foreign" isn't foreign anymore, it becomes part of you and you become part of it.
Yet, you will always know that you are still "not-native", regardless of how long you stay there and how much you assimilate. The life you have lived - at home - would have moulded your subjectivity. And even if you moved home, you would still be out of place, because the learning experience of being away will also contribute to your subjectivity, and you will never be able to return to the same safe, stable idea of the home you had left.
Given all this, the sense of misplacement in leaving our material and physical homes, the lives we live as christians also balance similarly in our spiritual reality - the christian life is a temporary assignment in a place that isn’t ours to call home.
Rick Warren on this - “The fact that earth is not our ultimate home explains why, as followers of Jesus, we experience difficulty, sorrow and rejection in this world. It explains why some of God’s promises seem unfilfilled, some prayers seem unanswered and some circumstances seem unfair... In order to keep us from being too attached to earth, God allows us to feel a significant amount of discontent and dissatisfaction in life - longings that will never be fulfilled on this side of eternity. We are not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be!”
Rest assured, the world nomad never forgets her roots.
Audio: Jazzanova compost.
Biblio: Dude, where's my country? by Michael Moore.
Cerebrio: Took the afternoon off from work, heading to the AGNSW!
It is a questions of identity and culture - also coined "Nomadology” in literary expressions of; once away from home, and having assimilated into the cultures outside, learning experience will change, such that you lose your "origin". We are made up of experiences which change us and mould us and we become different for those external and "foreign" influences. Soon, "foreign" isn't foreign anymore, it becomes part of you and you become part of it.
Yet, you will always know that you are still "not-native", regardless of how long you stay there and how much you assimilate. The life you have lived - at home - would have moulded your subjectivity. And even if you moved home, you would still be out of place, because the learning experience of being away will also contribute to your subjectivity, and you will never be able to return to the same safe, stable idea of the home you had left.
Given all this, the sense of misplacement in leaving our material and physical homes, the lives we live as christians also balance similarly in our spiritual reality - the christian life is a temporary assignment in a place that isn’t ours to call home.
Rick Warren on this - “The fact that earth is not our ultimate home explains why, as followers of Jesus, we experience difficulty, sorrow and rejection in this world. It explains why some of God’s promises seem unfilfilled, some prayers seem unanswered and some circumstances seem unfair... In order to keep us from being too attached to earth, God allows us to feel a significant amount of discontent and dissatisfaction in life - longings that will never be fulfilled on this side of eternity. We are not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be!”
Rest assured, the world nomad never forgets her roots.
Audio: Jazzanova compost.
Biblio: Dude, where's my country? by Michael Moore.
Cerebrio: Took the afternoon off from work, heading to the AGNSW!
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