Life of a third culture kid : Turning all odds in your favor
Putting aside all the difficulties that TCKs face throughout their whole lives, answering weird questions and brooding their futures, their lives are not that bad. In fact, they get to enjoy a lot of things that no other children except another TCK can revel in. So, what is it that makes their lives so interesting? And why are most TCKs so sad about not having a definite culture to look up to? In order to know all these, you have to first understand what it means being a TCK or third culture kid.
The most common definition of a third culture kid is one who has spend most of his/her developmental years outside the culture of his/her parents. Generally this happens to those young children who board their flights at a very young age with dreams of a new world and a new place to start living. There are a multitude of reasons behind this. Parents’ jobs requiring for them to leave their home country, difficulties of living somewhere and dreams of a better world and a better living standards are some of them. These little children seldom know what type of difficulties they are going to face later on in their lives. They enthrall in the idea of roaming around the world at first but the pains of coping with people’s questions get back at them later. However, this shouldn’t be the case. The TCKs get a lot of scope to do something productive with their lives and this post is going to discuss how a TCK can turn all odds in his/her favor.
- If you are a third culture kid, you get the scope to mix up with a variety of people from different cultural backgrounds. This causes open mindedness, enhances your knowledge and also helps you to create your own definition of culture. When you are in a managerial position in some organization, all these skills prove to be really useful.
- You get to roam the world at a very young age, learn multiple languages, revel in different social and cultural aspects of citizens from all over and make a lot of friends. However, it is true that you have to bid farewell to those friends after sometime, but in this digitally connected world is anyone really so far away?
- Some of the inherent benefits of living in different worlds is multilingualism, multiculturalism and the strength to believe that the world is really connected and that no one is alone. You have friends in every nook and corner of the globe which makes you all the more excited during holidays when you can visit them and indulge in several activities.
- You can relish the idea that you are from nowhere yet you are from everywhere and that you are unique in your own way. Being unique and different from others is not that bad. You have your own set of skills which you can use when the right opportunity knocks at your door.
Being a third culture kid gives you an upper hand over those people who have never been out of their own homeland and have never experienced the art of living alone. Solitary living has its own advantages and most third culture kids grow up to be really intelligent individuals with an unmatched strength to cope with adverse situations. So you see, you are not that unlucky. On the contrary, you have certain qualities that you can use to your own benefit when the situation demands so. So revel in yourselves and embrace your life as a citizen of the world.
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