Sons for the return home

Sons of the return home

(Text to self)

            Sons of the return home a story about a person questioning his own identity. Struggling to know who he is where he belongs and asking himself why is I unlike others. Why do I not belong here, where do I belong? An issue that is very common and almost everyone get confused if this topic ever comes up in a conversation.

           The main character found him self in a situation where he do not know who he is.Moving to a new country and making relationships to a person from different culture made him more confused to the point that he did not know his identity.

           Other people feels the same way as Sione, they sometimes feel that they do not belong in a particular place, especially people from another culture growing up in a different country. Just like me, I grew up in the country of the Philippines. The first few months after we migrate to New Zealand were the hardest. I’ve always wanted to go back to my mother country because of people mocking me about my way of speaking English (Not fluent, hard to understand). I had my trouble. No friends, no other families. Therefore I felt like I do not belong here. The main character, Sione knows others cultures, culture mainly Maoris and Caucasian. Although, He is either a (Samoan or a Kiwi) it is a though time in a persons life to feel this way. Almost as if nobody wants you but at least he knows how to find himself by tracing his ancestry back to Samoa.

           Sione grew up in a Samoan life style. He goes to church with the family (family time) and has kept the tradition Fa’a Samoa. Although, Sione thinks that he is different from his family. I think that he still considers them as family and will keep a close connection to them. His partner Sarah who also made him raised more questions about himself is I believed to be a big part of his life, in trying to know who he is. Maybe he is just confused and not used to Sarah’s culture and that is the reason why he kept asking more and more. This is just a simple example of what you love can be what your weakness is.

          Relating to my self, I think Sons for the return home made me realised that knowing who you are is very important. If you know your backgrounds, your roots and your ancestry, then you will never be able to lose who you are and you can be proud of what you can become.