Displacement

There is a peculiar sense of displacement that comes with moving to a foreign country.  As if, suddenly, you belong no where.  What you have previously called home has been dismantled, an empty house with empty rooms.  Where you are now is certainly not home, despite the presence of your belongings.  It is a place of confusion.


You are confused as to the time, and whether you should be awake or asleep and when you should eat.  Are you hungry?  Have you ever been?  There is a sign on the wall you cannot read, but you think the first word might mean somewhere.  Somewhere unfamiliar.  You have forgotten why you are here; why did you come, exactly?  Perhaps you are simply exhausted from overnight travels and you will remember in the morning.  Which morning?


Displacement (noun): the forced removal from a homeland.  
The displacement of Jews from the land of their ancestors.  
Related Words: Emigration.  Dispersion.  Scattering (noun): the random change in direction of the particles constituting a beam or wave front due to collision with particles of the medium traversed.


You miss your family and would like to return.