Sitting in the Passport office, waiting to renew/reapply for my child's passport I find myself half chuckling at a comment I made earlier, "Gotta renew the passport for when we need to escape Canada".
But then, where to? Who would take us? Why would we leave?
The past many years have pinpointed a significant realization for myself, and perhaps for many others, our loyalties aren't 100% tied to a "country", identity, nor idea - they are tied to a land. Regardless of the current happenings in any country, so many of us are tied to the land. The leaving is the final straw, the part that causes immense greif and perhaps for some, remorse.
"What if we stayed? Could we have done more? Could we have saved our homeland?"
That word, homeland.Home LAND. It isn't home country. It's homeland. We are tied to the land. So, when nefarious actors show up, try to dessimate a country, break apart ties to nationalism and operate in some form of government overlord structure, they fail to identify the thing that will unify and hold the citizenry closest. The land.
