Mixing with the different cultures makes you to accept one otherwise stick to your roots or to combine both or few more in the same time developing own base. Migrating , moving from the country to country , having to deal with different sophistications , improvements, and law’s systems , experiencing different love relationships, different educational possibilities, and different jobs, we learn more about ourselves and we clarify our preferences and abilities.

Some may be unidentified to themselves for finding it difficult to locate what are  their  roots at the end, what’s their foundation, it can be very frustrating , I have experienced it. But at the end of the day , I learnt to pick up the best from all and to follow my heart . In the future my traditions and essence will be those which are important and related to  my husband and which I consider  as a source of wellbeing and goodness for my family wich will contain the  history of my ancestors.

Not regretting anything has been  done till now.  Somewhere you lose, somewhere you find. I have missed perhaps a stability  being close to my family ,  developing and improving as an individual in the midst of  my native surrounding  with all its ethics, beliefs, heritage and traditions. In other hand, leaving home early tough me to open  my mind to the other  cultures, new discoverings, views, points, philosophy of  life. Making friends here and there walking through the life’s obstacles by your own made me to discover who I really am through choices making.  I think that’s great ! That’s the way I became quickly the  grown up and maturated as an individual. The  words from the song of Frank .Sinatra  says a lot to me:”I did it all, I did it my way ”.

Young people who  are migrating  from homecountries I would call self- selected people, very brave and the ground breakers who seek the similar one to them , with the same views on life, same hobbies, same ways to be to build up the  other new cultural society.

Oksana Khomyn