u/pinkplastic_love

Today I cried so much refreshing my memories back to my childhood during my hostel days. I’ve stayed in the same hostel for a decade and now that I’m about to go to a college I realised that when we were homesick, the teachers used to nag and put us down by praising other kids who didn’t cry for their home as often as kids like me. From 1st standard to my tenth my warden was same and whenever I would ask her if I could call my mother she would ask tons of questions and when my mother didn’t use to pick at the time she would refuse to let me call again or my father ( she would say once is enough). Now that I’m a bit older I realised that we never had the chance to call our parents when we missed them, only if we needed some books or utilities. God forbid I was a child and they would laugh and nag me about missing home, like how are you stopping a child from missing her/his home or parents. And some kids were mocked for having some stomachache or cold. Growing up now I know that I don’t just miss home I miss the belongingness that my environment restricted me from having.