What does home mean to you? I went home for the holidays and normally when I cross over that border that says welcome to Charleston, SC I am excited. This time though it was different…I wasn’t happy to be home. I had a conversation with one of my friends about it trying to figure out what home means.
Ain’t no place like home
Friend: How was your trip to Charleston?
Me: It was ok….didn’t feel like home
Friend: What? I thought you loved going home
Me: I did but this time it felt different. So many things have changed. It looks like a mini Atlanta and I felt like a tourist in the city I grew up in
Friend: Wow. Well I know you were glad to get back to Atlanta then
Me: Actually no. Atlanta has never felt like home to me either. It just felt like a place I stayed at. The kids were happy when we got back kissing the floor talking about they were so happy to be home and I was just like….we back…yay (very sarcastically) I don’t know what home is anymore. Is it the people, is it the place I live, is it where the heart is?
Friend: I think home is where you feel like you are at peace. It does have to do with people but you can make a home anywhere it doesn’t have to be where you grew up it’s where you are now and space you are in. Maybe you aren’t in a good space anymore because you’ve lost so many people you probably feel like you’ve lost your sense of home
Me: Yeah I think that’s what it is. My Aunt Emma was my last piece of home then my other Aunt died 3 days later and the few pieces I had left of my family were gone. I am on a journey to figure out how to find my way home again.
Sadly even when my hubs was alive I still never felt like Atlanta was my home. I felt out of place here and now I feel out of place in the place I spent 20 years in. My journey this year is to find my place…..
Where is home for you?
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