John’s wife and two children left for America in 2006 earlier than him.his life turned into the same pattern everyday for years. He woke up every morning and went to work at a national Bank where he was a  guard and that was okay for a while, until it wasn’t. He became incredibly saddened by the fact that he was alone. He would call his family but communication wasn’t he best, oftentimes the conversations were so minimal. He would call and say ā€œ Hello sweetheart, how are you ?ā€  and his daughters would respond ā€œ I’m doing fine, I really miss you and I love you dadā€¦ā€ He wished that they would tell him more about how school was going and how it was to meet new people and how to understand a new culture, but that was never the case. I mean can you blame children for not knowing how to communicate what’s going on around them if they’ve never really done it before.

How could he go about expressing his sadness to his family without making them feel guilty for leaving to make their lives have more meaning and give themselves better opportunities. John decided he was going to join his family in America and change the narrative of his life. He got on a plane for the very first time and headed to join his family. Finally he was with his wife and his two daughters, communication was better. Instead of waking up to an empty house alone. He woke up to breakfast being made, stories being told and he felt fulfilled. He realized that it was important to have his family around and him living miles away was not worth all the hurt and missing out on key events in his family’s lives that he so easily could be a part of.