If you feel hated for being a foreigner, here’s what to do.

©Amy Aves Challenger

Admit that everyone is born foreign.

It’s normal to be a foreigner. I try to say this to myself every time I wake in Switzerland, hearing the rooster crow from the farmer’s house across the way, watching a dinosaur-sized stork whiz by, listening to the church bells over the lake, absorbing every tune of bird song into my tired body. Birth is living. It is waking…