after a while, I'm afraid you'll find that the place you call "back home" doesn't exist anymore
This was already happening while I was growing up, and is part of the reason I left as opposed to staying and trying to make things work there instead of here. Now I would go home purely because of friends and family, who grow older and who I may not have much time with in our remaining lifetimes, and also because I am still sometimes a fish out of water here and always will be. Not in a bad way -- this is a beautiful country mostly filled with very nice people, but sometimes one wishes to be amongst one's own people, yes? With a common background and Weltanschauung that does not require explication. With regard tot hat I also suspect that *I* have changed enough that there is no "home", I am outsider whereever I am. This is a lonely state of affairs, but there's nothing to be done about it.
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This was already happening while I was growing up, and is part of the reason I left as opposed to staying and trying to make things work there instead of here. Now I would go home purely because of friends and family, who grow older and who I may not have much time with in our remaining lifetimes, and also because I am still sometimes a fish out of water here and always will be. Not in a bad way -- this is a beautiful country mostly filled with very nice people, but sometimes one wishes to be amongst one's own people, yes? With a common background and Weltanschauung that does not require explication. With regard tot hat I also suspect that *I* have changed enough that there is no "home", I am outsider whereever I am. This is a lonely state of affairs, but there's nothing to be done about it.