Homesick Quote

[learning456]

"Most of us are homesick for places that don't even exist anymore."

 

I just saw this on Facebook and think it is very profound. Someone had posted it regarding their small hometown changing over the past

decades and it really got my mind going.

 

Any thoughts?

[Nan in Mass]

Or homesick for places where they were with people who are either gone now, or are different.

Or homesick for a time when they were different people themselves.

 

Nan

[OH_Homeschooler]

Yes, I get homesick for my small town, or my college town. But I think the experience of being young or being a college student is what I'm craving. Those were fun and carefree times when I was cared for or I only had to answer to myself.

 

For example, I know I can visit my favorite bar when I was a college student and it will be nice, but it simply won't be the same. I no longer like cheap beer or cheap crappy food, and things only got fun after 10 there and I'm in bed by 10 these days. The bar probably belongs to current college kids, who would just annoy me. I would be worried about my kids the whole time I was at the bar. 

 

 

 

[fraidycat]

"Most of us are homesick for places that don't even exist anymore."

 

I just saw this on Facebook and think it is very profound. Someone had posted it regarding their small hometown changing over the past

decades and it really got my mind going.

 

Any thoughts?

It sounds like the follow on to You can't go home again...because that place/time/experience doesn't exist anymore.

 

I've learned that it's very true. My hometown has changed a bit, but it's more than that. The people I knew have grown/left/changed. I have grown/left/changed. The experiences I had there as a child, teen, young adult can't be recreated, no matter how enjoyable they were at the time.

 

It also reminds me of the saying that you never read the same book twice, because you are a different person each time you read it.

[mamaofgirls]

Reminds me of one of my favorite songs by Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me...

 

 

[Chris in VA]

Reminds me of one of my favorite songs by Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me...

 

Oh my, I LOVE that song. I cry every stinkin' time it's on the radio.

 

 

 

The woods near my childhood home were cut down, and more streets added to my dead-end street. Going back to visit was so weird. I am definitely homesick for that place. I don't feel I have a home anymore anywhere, really.

 

[Scarlett]

Reminds me of one of my favorite songs by Miranda Lambert, The House That Built Me...

I love that song too.

[Penguin]

Yes, X1000.

 

I can't even easily find my way around in my hometown any longer, and I lived there for 21 years. And yet everything about that place and my childhood home is seared in my memory.

Edited April 12, 2016 by Penguin

[EmilyGF]

Yes.

 

I remember the first time I went "home" and didn't run into someone I knew every time I went out. I had known the place changed, but when that happened, my desire to live there again went away. What was better was that in my new city, I do run into people I know nearly every time I go somewhere, so I have a new home.

 

Emily

[ktgrok]

I say this all the time! I want to move back to my hometown, but the way it was when I grew up, before it turned into just another part of Palm Beach. I grew up with working class families, never locking your door, kids wandering all over town. Some of that still happens, but instead of one mall there's now  a bunch of high end shopping areas and the restaurants are all expensive, and it's more and more and more wealthy families. They kept building more and more golf course country club places and the property values rose tot he point that working class families can't afford to buy there anymore.