I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.