Post travel depression

And I thought I was being original...
Life just sometimes seems too hard. Everything about getting back to 'normal' is just plain difficult.
Then we both started having disturbing dreams and sleep interuptions. Two days ago I came up with the term - post travel depression. Today, just for fun, I googled it and got 16 300 000 results!!!
Does that make it any more real? Do we need some professional help to deal with it? Or do we just keep slugging away in the hope that tomorrow we will emerge from the haze, the house will suddenly be organised and feel more like a 'home', one of us will find some paid work so the possibility of having our own 'home' again won't be disappearing over the horizon.
I think one of the most difficult things is never really finishing anything. There is so much to do that I seem to get halfway through something and leave it to attend to something more urgent - and days later, it is still half done! As is whatever distracted me from it in the first place.
I used to be so organised - I used to be a lot of things, but travel changes everything.
And the thing it changes most of all is this seemingly never-ending process of returning 'home'.

global warming and asylum seekers

Slowly it is dawning on me, how protected from the world of politics and people's opinions we were, as we travelled for such a long time in countries where English wasn't the first language. We didn't have television. We didn't buy newspapers. And our time on the Internet was usually spent frantically trying to catch up with news of friends and family and keeping our web page as up to date as possible.
But now we are back to reality, and I am almost wishing for the quiet oblivion we had been experiencing until recently.

Global Warming:
Some simply accept it as an obvious fact, and try to do something about it.
Others cling to the opinion of 'respected scientists', who say it is all a figment of politicians' or environmentalists' imaginations.
And then there are the fence sitters, who won't quite commit to it as a fact, but don't really want to align themselves with the refuters.
These last seem to be most concerned about the money that will be 'lost' by the big polluters of the business world, if measures are put into place to combat it.
My question: How can we afford to ignore/deny it, if it means that our children's future is in jeopardy?

Asylum Seekers:
...or illegal immigrants!!!
The 'boat people' load themselves and their beloved children onto a leaky fishing boat and travel across a dangerous ocean to seek asylum in our country.
Some label them 'queue jumpers', 'illegal immigrants', 'potential terrorists' or worse.
My questions: Why would someone undertake such a potentially-doomed excursion if there was a local queue to join? Why would someone risk their life, and the lives of the people most precious to them, if there were any other options available. Why would someone choose this route if they were not desperate?

These two issues are very swiftly becoming 'political footballs'.

All children are entitled to more humanitarian, and less political, consideration.