Re: Chatters Talk: Happy or Sad
For me, "my home" is where my heart is. I currently have homes in three states...and that is hard, really hard.
We own only one house, but I spent most of my adult life in the Bay Area and though I left my heart in San Francisco, it spread out to the East Bay, Sacramento and Monterey, with the people I love.
In 2000 we moved to the Twin Cities. For me a return "home" for my family a new experience. I was reunited with all my old friends from childhood and my sisters and brother, cousins...big family/friend base here. I had left all of them once and now I am going to do it again?????? Not sure I can...because this time I will also be leaving my children and grandchildren.
Oh this is making me really sad. So glad I decided to answer this thread.
So why do I want to uproot again and move to FL, to an area that appears perfect until you step outside the borders of TV and then for me anyway, a bit iffy. How can I call the people I/we met in TV, based on Crabcake Crawl and a Freeze in the Square "my new best friends?" How can I miss these new friends the way I miss my old friends? Why am I willing to sell and give away my accumulated belongings of 50 years, to move to a little house that has lots of restrictions, maybe no gas and maybe no privacy???
Why do I know, that it is the right thing to do, to once again leave all that I love behind?
How can I be joyfully packing, painting, and planning?
I don't know, I guess I drank the water!
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