Where you’re from is an address. It’s not the destination printed on your ticket.

Origin explains where you started and predicts far less than everyone assumes. A place carries expectations, statistics and other people’s ideas about what comes out of it, none of which describe your ticket. Where you are from is a fact about the past. What you do next is a separate question entirely.

Notice when you are using your background to explain a limit rather than to explain a fact. Keep what is genuinely yours: the people, the humor, what it taught you. Then go where you were going without treating the address as the whole story.