Tag: TCKs
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This Dull Ache
Why does it keep coming back to hurt me to haunt me to sadden me each time I see your lovely face? It’s like a dull ache…
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Why Do I Feel So Alone?
Why Do I feel so Alone? I know it’s the lies talking to me Telling me things…
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He Cares
You smile on the outside, You put on a facade. “I’m fine,” you say too brightly. You hide the pain inside…
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Chameleon in a Crowd:
I don’t think I am afraid of being lonely I take that back I am afraid of being alone I know how to be on my own And yet there are moments in life…
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On Saying Goodbye Before It’s Time: When I Find Myself Closing Off
“I was thinking,” my friend started, leaning against the kitchen counter. “Yes?” I said and took another sip of water before nodding encouragingly. “I could leave a few months earlier than I had been planning…”
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Dear TCK, You Are Not Invisible to God
Honestly? I’m tired of being surrounded by people who don’t get me. I’m tired of feeling alone in a crowd. I’m tired of always having to put on a smile. To act like someone I’m not.
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TCK Voices: Life Feels Like a Series of Goodbyes
I know that life always seems to go up and down, especially for TCKs. There’s always a change: a new person, another move, a scary experience…
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Working Through the “What Ifs”
I took a deep breath to steady my nerves, but I was so anxious I felt sick. I knelt on the cool tile floor of the school bathroom and prayed, “Lord, I don’t know if I can do this…
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When You Primarily Expect Hardships From the Hand of God
I never got to properly grieve my home, which I thought would be permanent. I never got to go through a repatriation program, because for two years we thought we would return. And through it all, I questioned God’s reasoning for…
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TCK Voices: Unstacking Grief and Celebrating Different Cultures
I was born in Singapore, spent the majority of my childhood in England and Turkey, and then went to boarding school in Germany. When I’m asked the dreaded “Which country did you like the most?” I answer that I…
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heartache
it hurts to love a person a friend that i only spent a week of my life with it hurts to go through cherished pictures and think “i’ll never see her again”
