Leading up to your flight overseas, exhaustion hit you harder than expected. Between visiting everyone, the emotional weight of returning home for the holiday, and the looming anticipation of seeing the rest abroad, your mind had been running nonstop. It wasn’t anxiety exactly—more like a quiet turbulence full of questions you hadn’t asked in years. Boarding the late-night plane, you were finally lulled into a drifting, heavy sleep… only with the sensation of falling into something familiar.