last May marked the completion of my husband and my one year assignment abroad. a year has just passed. yes, just a year, and it has been filled and full of moments of trepidation, worries, and trials that have been pushing us to the limit. Yet, the very same one year has also given us more life wisdom, hard-earned experience we wouldn't get through formal learning, love and more courage to embrace life.
diplomatic life... How indeed, it's more than a glamorous life within diplomatic corps. It's beyond than the willingness to accept a normadic life, the sacrifice to let go one's own career and interest so one can fully support the husband and children while in posting, the acceptance and tolerance of one's husband's goal as one's, the readiness to leave behind many loved ones, the adjustment and adaptation in new cultures and customs, and ultimately, the ability to project the best image of the country one represents. it wouldn't be too much probably to say that a diplomat's wife's roles are akin to those of her husband, if not even greater and yet invisible. Here perhaps comes the saying, behind every great man, indeed, there is always a great woman.
diplomatic life. no matter how fabulous or how treacherous it could be, we would be more than ready to brace you.
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