Home changes as you get older. It stops being the place you live out your life, day to day living. Food, water, shelter, place for homework, to have friends over,
After you move out, other places pick up the slack on those things, and home becomes the place you return to for a rest. I'm about to go home for Thanksgiving, and there are several reasons I am looking forward to it. They all come down to two things: 1. I miss the place where I feel most comfortable and 2. it means a break from school.
I can go home. I can relax. I don't have to think hard about directions, I can know five different ways home no matter where I am, instead of one highway, which if it gets closed, I'm screwed.
Sometimes I still feel like I'm just a visitor here, in Minnesota, and I'll be getting home after a very very long vacation. I don't want to always feel that way, but that just solidifies what Pittsburgh means to me, and always will. It's home, no matter how long I have to be away from it.
The other side of it, that I need a break from school? That's pretty self-explanatory, no? I wish I could go home without any schoolbooks and really take a break, but I guess I need to do at least something, unfortunately.
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The one and most predictable emotion that a young person away from home for any length of time will feel is - homesick. Especially when your psyche is battered every day by things unfamiliar. One day you will wake up and suddenly realize that Yes!, you are on your own and you are making it and you are strong and independent. Then you will carry 'home' in your heart, but your home will be wherever you are.
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