Consider the following comments on migration.
To migrate is to learn that home was a verb all along.
The migrant carries two countries and is fully at ease in neither.
We leave one place to be someone new and spend years missing who we were.
A border is a line on a map and a wall through a family.
Some people are from a place, and some people are from a leaving.
Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.
A way into this prompt
A reflective thesis is that to leave one place for another, whether by choice or necessity, is to discover that belonging is not a fixed location but something you have to rebuild, and that the rebuilding leaves you permanently between worlds. Open with a particular experience of arrival or departure, the first meal that tasted wrong, the accent that marked you, the slow ache of a language you stopped dreaming in. Then explore the tension: migration is often framed as either triumph or loss, but the truth is both at once, a widening of the self that is also a kind of bereavement for the person who would have stayed. A useful structural move contrasts the freedom of becoming someone new with the quiet grief of no longer fully belonging anywhere. Caution: avoid the sentimental resolution that you eventually find home again, since for many the more honest ending is learning to be at peace with belonging only partly, in more than one place.