I really needed to see this quote. Recently I've been feeling a little bit of homesick. We are going home at the end of this month and I'm assuming it's just the anticipation of being home.
Before Ryan and I left we were with friends or family probably 4-6 days a week. We went to work and school and then we hung out with friends. It was a given that we would be around our friends or family so much. It was something that I loved at the time, but I really took for granted.
When we moved we realized how involved we were with our friends and family. That we had such good people by our sides and to support us. We also became really sad realizing we didn't have that when we got here. One of our first friends here really made us leave the house, got us out to do things and invited us over quite often and then they moved. When they moved summer was coming to an end and our first winter out here was definitely a game changer. It was cold (as in colder than Michigan some days), WINDY, no snow, we were lonely and spent the holidays away from our family. It wasn't all bad as we did start making more friends, learned we were going to be having a baby and finding our place in California.
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I still call Michigan home. Michigan is our home. Our families are there. We still have friends there. Ryan calls California home. California is where we live...it's home. With that said, when we are there it doesn't feel like home. We miss our dogs when we are away, the walls of our house, our friends and the life we've made in California. While we love being in Michigan and have a taste of everything our lives once were it's just not the same mostly because people have changed, places have changed and things have changed. We no longer know the roads and how to get places like the back of our hands. We get lost when we go places in the city I spent 4 years living in and Ryan grew up in. So can I truly still call it "home"? I think I can...and I will, but truthfully home is wherever Ryan, Dominick and I are together...where our memories are made together.
I think I will always miss Michigan, but I know it's a place I can always go back to and the people who matter most we will see no matter where we live.
2 comments:
Being in the Military and away from friends and family is so hard. You make great friends, then you part ways. It's tiring at times. I always have a hard time with the 'home' thing. Even though this is our home, it's not home. I said that in Texas too. I always say I wonder what it would be like to live in the same city as family. It's something I'm unfamiliar with, I haven't been with my famil for 12 years :(
I bet you're looking forward to your trip, how exciting!! It will be here before you know it!
I've struggled with this. My simple answer is, the house I live in is my "home". Wherever that is.
I'll always be "from Jersey" when people ask but it's hard to feel like it's my "home", because it's been so long. Because I don't really "live" there. LOL. It's weird. I know what you mean though.
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