National Day Blog of an Expatriate Teenager.

Another national day has arrived. Bringing to mind a whole mixture of emotions. Obviously i feel proud, the country i've been living in the past 16+ years, my whole life, is celebrating it's national day. What a magical feeling. The story of how a few desert states, joined together to form the United Arab Emirates. How a collection of a few hamlets united and grew into this great country is indeed a spectacular story.

This country has acheived so much in this very short period, 39 years is absolutely nothing, compared to other countries. But within this short span of time a desert was converted into a nation. A truly inspiring story.

But then i think again, i have fallen in love with this place, it's way of life, the malls, the roads, the metro, the skyline... I'd seen all this grow. And somehow feel somehow possesive about them. But then a reality hit me recently, i had know it before, but it had never struck me, this country which i love and have lived all throughout my life wont let me stay after i'm 18. I was born here, I was brought up here, i've even represented it international events, yet when i turn 18 my visa expires and i have to leave.

Should i not have grown this close? Should i not have loved while lived in this country, because it wasn't my own? But isn't that too much to ask of an infant, a child or even a teenager? To not love his hometown because, your hometown is somewhere u go every year for a month or two on holiday, and where u live is not you hometown. Most of us live here own rent, when we return one day, we can't come back to cherished memories, to our old rooms because it's someone elses room, someone else who my then leave giving it to someone else. Lives living...

I dunno what to write, emotions are filling my mind and i'm confused. 

Happy National Day. I <3 u UAE.
:)