SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT

Three Chapters of My Life
 
The lights of the city twinkled in the distance with its gentle glow. As the airplane started to descend, I hardly recognized this landscape. Only a few years ago they were a few flickers, one strand of lights enveloping the city. Now it was multiple strings encasing a growing metropolis. 
 
I last visited Cambodia in 2017. I had the intention to visit every year or at least every other year to keep my connection to the country. To help my children maintain this part of their identity. But the world stopped in 2020 on a global and personal level. In July I travelled back to Cambodia after five years of being away. The country is the same, but different. The world is the same, but different. I am the same, but different. 

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