11.30.2006
where is home?
I'm watching bits and pieces of this movie on t.v. This girl has come back to New York after being away for a month or so and at first she felt as if she were "coming home." Now, she feels like she should go back to Alaska (also the place where her beau is) and leave New York behind her.
She is telling her sister and a friend how torn she is in this decision. Her sister tells her, "you were born here, this is home." To which she responds, "yeah but, is home where you were born, or is it where you feel the most like you?"
I wonder if I am most like me in my present surroundings.
She is telling her sister and a friend how torn she is in this decision. Her sister tells her, "you were born here, this is home." To which she responds, "yeah but, is home where you were born, or is it where you feel the most like you?"
I wonder if I am most like me in my present surroundings.
posted by The Secret of Happiness @ 10:39 PM
3 Comments:
At 30.11.06,
Stephanie said…
Sometimes, when I would move as a child, it would take almost 2 years for me to feel as though I were home in my new "home"... is home being surrounded by that which makes you comfortable... or being surrounded by those you love...or being somewhere that evokes memories... or all of the above?
At 1.12.06,
Johnny said…
Yesterday, Staci and I celebrated 18 years of marriage and this morning when I woke up around 6:30, I pulled her close to be and held her like it was our last day together. Sometimes, appreciating the important people in our lives is what makes a place home. Like looking forward to seeing my boys come home from school and watching Ella run around the house with her pigtails pretending to be a puppy.
For me, it's not the place that makes a home. In fact, when I go "home" to Jacksonville, Florida, I really only feel at home while my children and wife are with me. Everywhere we go together, I feel at home.
Others need to be near the place they grew up so that even when they are with those they love, they don't feel at home unless they are in that place.
I think it all boils down to true principles. What really matters to us in life? Is it a place or people? That's what we have to decide and live by.
Life is too short to live far from home, no matter what home is to you.
Grace and peace,
Johnny
At 1.12.06,
Anonymous said…
I think home is where you feel most like yourself. Newfoundlanders always refer to NL as 'Home' but I feel most at home wherever I am fulfilling God's will for my life, which for right now is to be the best disciple, wife and mother that I can be.
To quote Pumba from 'The Lion King'
"Home is where your rump rests."
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