Welcome to the Human Race!

The following was posted in our Facebook Group "Fun To Start Over" by Ian Grant Spong. with his permission I've added it to the blog! I think it is so well put! Thanks, Ian!
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I've lived in 4 countries, two languages, and several careers. Starting over has been an every few years kind of thing for my whole life. What have I learned? I guess there are about 4 stages:
1. Let's call it tourist stage. It's a new country, new job, new home, new language, etc. It's exciting. Like being a tourist.
2. Let's call it the homesick stage. You miss you old job, country, language, friends. Hearing a magpie's warble on Man From Snowy River did it for me.
3. Let's call this the settling in stage. You accept the good and bad as part of your new life. You've adapted.
4. Let's call this the going back home stage. You restart an old career, return to your home country, rekindle old friendships, etc. But everyone's moved on since you left. It's all different. You're now a foreigner in your home country, a newbie in your old job, a stranger to old friends. You've grown beyond the confines of national pride, language lines, bigotry and prejudice. You've become a world citizen. You wish you could put the good from all last jobs, countries, friendships into one place. But you can't, and so you settle in again, but now you are forever changed. You are an internationalist, a world citizen, more cautious with friendships, more open with opinions, more adaptable, not so narrow minded. Congratulations! You've joined the human race.