the.com/homesick
The body staying put while the heart books a one-way ticket back.
means A deep aching longing for home, family, or familiar places when you're away from them.
from A 1700s English calque of German Heimweh, home-woe — once a clinical diagnosis Swiss soldiers literally died of.
Medical pastNostalgia was once a fatal battlefield disease.
Swiss originMercenaries banned from singing certain homeland songs.
Universal pullStudied in astronauts, prisoners, and college freshmen alike.