A Home away from Home

By: Nicolas Angelo Ramos

It’s been a while since the start of the seminary formation.

Seminary is not your everyday school that you know. It is a
school where the students called seminarians are being molded as
future priest. Being “independent” and being a “steward” is part
of the seminary’s formation. Staying or living here, not totally
that you live here until the semester or entire school year but
only for like a week or two or even a month. With this practice,
you will learn how to stand on your own feet and do thing on your
own. But the number one problem for this is homesickness.
According to Webster’s Dictionary being homesick is having a
longing for home, but it can be also the longing for his/her
parents, he/she misses his/her siblings, the practices in the
house especially for the young one’s today- gadgets. When a
person feels that they are homesick, they feel sad, somewhat
alone even though you have your classmates, you feel so desolate
that streams of tears are flowing through your eyes, crying at
the morning, crying at the bathroom, maybe crying as raindrops
fall beneath or maybe lying under the bed, still crying holding
the picture of your mother. Homesickness makes the person
depress, a loner, somewhat weird a crybaby or a mama’s boy but
you couldn’t blame the person, the person lived with his/her
parents or guardians for like more than 11 or 12 years,
especially if you’re always dependent to your parents.
They said, homesickness is normal for people, who are away
from their love ones. It’s normal to miss home, its normal for it
to be normal, but sometimes the normal gets abnormal, non-stop
crying, doing crazy things, getting himself to sickness and
talking to oneself. Homesickness might be unavoidable for a
person, but it can be overcoming.
Overcoming a homesickness isn’t about forgetting everything
in your home but to make yourself flexible in any places at any
time. In your home, if you have friends there, make also some
friends in the seminary, it’s not that difficult, you know?
Remember that you’re in good hands, it’s not like you’ll get
tortured here, the formator’s will take a good care of you
because it is their job to form as an undependable person and
it’s not like you’re here forever, you can also go home as a
privileged and your parents can even visit you, don’t be afraid,
this isn’t a prison, it’s a school, a very fun school where
friendship and camaraderie lasts, you need to move on to your old
self and be a new person that you can be, because moving on is
not about forgetting things, you can accept that it happen and
you learn from it.