Life As a TCK as told by Sarah Little

Hey everyone! So I was just doing the usual and going through Facebook when I came across an article about Third Culture Kids. Naturally, I was interested and decided to read it and WOW. Just wow. This piece, written by Sarah Little, a fellow TCK, gave me major goose bumps. I immediately sent the link to my boyfriend to read it (he’s a TCK too) and he got the goose bumps too!! I think it’s because she was able to perfectly describe and put into words what it’s really like being a part of this “third culture.”

She could not have explained it any better than she did in this excerpt, and neither could I:

“We are an unidentifiable group of people that grew up all over the world and feel no sense of belonging anywhere except to each other. We don’t have the same accent or skin color. We don’t cheer for the same World Cup team. We don’t have the same countries listed in our passport. But we each know life beyond the confines of our passport country. We tell the same stories and laugh at the same jokes. We experience the same “where are you from?” anxiety. Often, we even know the same people.”

Although her story is different than mine because of the fact that she grew in several different countries while I lived in one my whole life, I could still relate to her experiences. “I didn’t understand how I could feel like both an insider and outsider. I didn’t understand how I could fit in everywhere seamlessly, yet at the same time, nowhere at all.” I remember feeling this way after moving to America.

TCKs look back on their lives differently than others. “Instead of seasons or age, we bookmark our lives by places and moments.” Our “home”is not defined by a single geographical location, but instead by moments, events, people, memories, and a myriad of places. After reading these couple sentences, I realized how true the statement is.

Here’s the link to the article that I’ve been referring to: https://matadornetwork.com/read/life-cracks-confessions-third-culture-kid/

This is a MUST read for both people who want to understand the life of a TCK better, and for TCKs who want to read an article that they can relate to!

For you TCKs out there, let me know if you got goose pumps too in the comment section below!