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What does it mean?
The speaker feels stuck in a foreign place and longs to return home, avoiding triggers of sadness.
In plain terms
He has a ticket to leave a country that feels different and wants to go back home.
What can you take from it?
Home calls when a place feels foreign.

Where it applies

  • traveling
  • feeling out of place
  • leaving

Putting it to work

  • acknowledge homesickness
  • plan return

Questions to consider

  • When do you feel out of place?
  • What draws you home?

Another view

Leaving may not solve the underlying feeling.

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