I used to

I'm living in a foregin country, but things don't seem foreign any more.
Confidence is on my side when I speak the language. I'm watching the news, Ahhh... It's a small world.
But I'm feeling the distance between my hands and my mom's hands. I can't tell how much I miss my mom. Her smiles, her eyes...
I just used to live here like my homeland, I used to watch the TV more than 2 hours a day. I used to love everything that I have. Yesss...
But I remember my teacher at the university" If you have ever lived or worked abroad, you probably went through culture shock"
In my case, It didn't take me a long time to get used to some of the customs.
I love this quote, It makes me think.

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory--and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making. - Mark Twain's Own Autobiography (North American Review, May 3, 1907)