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How far is "home"?

Lady of Shalott

Lady of Shalott

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This is an offshoot of the homesickness thread.

How far away is the place that feels like home to you? Have you been there? Do you plan to go there?

For me, home is Scotland, most specifically the highlands, especially the Glencoe area. I have only visited once, and, as a young American with little disposable income, it is incredibly upsetting that I will likely not be able to visit again for many years to come.

What about you?
 
Lady of Shalott said:
I have only visited once, and, as a young American with little disposable income, it is incredibly upsetting that I will likely not be able to visit again for many years to come.
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If you don't mind me asking, how 'young' are you? Have you thought about the possibility of student exchange? house exchange? There's plenty of information on the internet if you'd consider those things.


And to answer your original question, I'm really drawn to South America, and I do intend to go back there one day, except there's a LOT of hiking to be done to get to where I specifically want to go.... and i'm no spring chicken anymore! ^L^
 
I have wanted to go to England my whole life. I've never been there. I had planned to go as a foreign exchange student while in college but then discovered I was pregnant. I chose to stay near my family and baby's father (later husband) rather than go off to a foreign country by myself. I believe London is where I'd like to go back to, or the old parts of the city, or perhaps those don't exist anymore. Maybe someday I will be able to travel there.
 
Home, fortunately, is right here. But, so much has changed. They say you can never go home, because it's never the same.


-Nightrain
 
ChrisR said:
If you don't mind me asking, how 'young' are you? Have you thought about the possibility of student exchange? house exchange? There's plenty of information on the internet if you'd consider those things.
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I'm 22 and a student, and there was an opportunity to take some classes in Scotland a couple years ago, but unfortunately not enough people were interested in the program, and the trip got canceled. :(
 
Nightrain1 said:
Home, fortunately, is right here. But, so much has changed. They say you can never go home, because it's never the same.
-Nightrain
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That's very true. When I was very young, I had an obsession with traditional Japanese culture. I didn't find out for several years that things were very different in modern Japan than what I had been thinking. It was very upsetting at the time!
 
I'm pretty much home also or at least close enough. There are a lot of buildings, telephone poles, and roads in the way. The water you wouldn't want to drink without boiling and maybe not even then. Every piece of ground you step on is owned by someone and there's usually a fence around it. Most of the food either bought from farmers or found in the ground you have to wonder what's been sprayed on it or what's in the soil it was grown in and money is a lot of peoples god (ok, it was then too, I remember an older cousin telling me about the men coming in to look for gold and wondering why it was that important).


Progress and civilization.
 
Home is where I am right now.


Since i was a child I was fascinated by this city, thats why I moved there.


Another city that has always attracted me is London.Its not too far away from me.


I have been there twice and plan to go there again soon.


I felt very much like home when I was in London.I also noticed that i changed while I was in that city and I didnt feel like a stranger at all.


And,well, there is a "place" that feels like home to me that I cant travel to,at least not by train/plane,etc...Im talking about the time around 1900....i feel strange in the time I live in now.
 
Home is in the center of England, and along its western coast.


There's a very good tool now if you feel you've lived some place. Google has the street view of many of the areas in Great Britain and France, portions of Germany, and a number of other countries. I've been able to go back to most of the places I feel are home in this way, and see if I can remember my way around.


It was very interesting when several family members headed for Germany, and discovered they felt they had come from the area they were in - I had felt I had a life in that same area. We were able to compare notes by what we were feeling about the trip. The pull of Germany on one family member was so strong, she just moved there.
 
For some odd reason, I've felt for a long time the pull of England, circa the 1920's, 30's and the 40's (between World War I and World War II).


One of my strongest (and most consistent) Past Life (PL) memories is of England, ending in my premature death in that PL as presumably a young RAF fighter pilot within sight of the White Cliffs of Dover (hence my Avatar).


The attraction is so strong that I find myself wanting to use spelling common to England rather than the USA, and I also like the music of that era, for instance Vera Lynn, but also little things I can't really explain in length.


As for my current lifetime, I was born, raised, worked and lived in Florida my entire life (save for a trip or two up North), but I don't feel the strong emotions that much for Florida as I do England.


Because of mobility issues I don't much foresee myself visiting England in this lifetime, and besides the England I once knew in my memories is no longer there, everything has changed, and I've heard it mistakenly said "You can never go home".


YES, I can go home, as the "home" I will eventually go to, is my spiritual home on the other side!
 
hydrolad said:
Because of mobility issues I don't much foresee myself visiting England in this lifetime, and besides the England I once knew in my memories is no longer there, everything has changed, and I've heard it mistakenly said "You can never go home".
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For me, home is Egypt. I've always felt a strong pull, perhaps because that was (as far as I know) my happiest past life. But what Hydrolad said about England, is true for me about Egypt - the Egypt I knew is no longer there.


Maybe some later in this lifetime, if I can afford it and the its is safe enough to travel there, I will go.
 
Now how much in this life have I felt sooooo 'Home' here in the Yellowstone Rocky Mountain Wilderness. And that is Why I live here. Just how much is it I feel just "Home" and where I personally belong, down to the center of my being it is it seems always. It is interesting that in my life when I do leave here and travel elsewhere, this is the time when I feel like a fish out of water so to speak. And for myself, it is as if this Yellowstone and Jackson Hole country is the center of my world! When here I am fine but when I leave here I fair worse! Do know this comes from previous lifetimes when lived here in the Yellowstone - Jackson Hole - Wyoming Wilds as a Sheep Eater - Mountain Shoshone.


This for me is also how I feel when in the Canyon Country Wilds of Southern Utah. And it seems all my life, I have had times when I just have to travel to this canyon country for my Redrock Fix so to speak. Do know that in past lives lived here in these canyons as a Anasazi / Fremont Anasazi. And have had quite a few flashbacks to those past lifetimes when am in the canyons wandering about.


But the one place that I make it a point to NOT go and see is the plains area here in the States. The reason is just how much do know down deep that it is just not the same anymore. And to think what was done and happened here on the plains, causes incredible sadness to overwhelm myself personally.


It is when I travel to the cities and the metropolitan places it seems that I always feel like a fish out of water and always experience such a deep and profound 'Culture Shock' so to speak. Do know this is where most people live and desire to be so to speak. But Not Me! I personally do not have those desires to travel the world for am in this life, exactly where I desire to be and where I do indeed feel sooooo deeply at 'Home' so to speak - in these Wyoming and Rocky Mountain Wilds!


Wishing Everyone the Best!
 
Hydrolad- how are you about cold and water, since a survived ditching with death shortly after would have presumably involved freezing to death or drowning.
 
kemetic18 said:
For me, home is Egypt. I've always felt a strong pull, perhaps because that was (as far as I know) my happiest past life. But what Hydrolad said about England, is true for me about Egypt - the Egypt I knew is no longer there.
Maybe some later in this lifetime, if I can afford it and the its is safe enough to travel there, I will go.
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I agree with you. The society I knew and loved died off a long time ago.


For me, home is the people I care about. The culture and place may change, but as long as I have a few certain people with me in each life, I can adapt.


Even so, I still miss it.
 
I have several places that I feel is home :)


The Greek islands in the Aegean, particularly Crete, feels immensely like home, but also Greek mainland - Pelopennese.


I always feel I 'come home' when I visit the Netherlands. I have no memories of living there, but I feel a deep connection with the homes there.


I felt at home in Southafrica. It felt so much like home that I couldn't stop crying when I left and I miss it so much.


I've been to Russia twice and that's somewhere where I did not feel at home. I felt so strongly like a stranger in Russia, like I was trespassing. So I can't stop thinking about what my connection are to Russia that would make me dislike that country so much :)
 
New England. I had always wanted to visit NE, preferably Philadelphia PA or Boston MA. Being stuck in California, it was a dream that would never happen, or so I thought. When my husband struck a deal that got us some land in Maine, I was like a little kid who had just been given a lifetime pass to Disney World!


So we took a flight to see the piece of land that we had bought. I was sound asleep in my seat, but a sudden sensation woke me up. It was the exact same feeling I used to get when I was little and we had been out on a long trip and had just pulled back into the driveway; "We're home." That was the exact point we had entered New England airspace.


Things only got better the closer we got to our destination. As we drove our rented car north towards New Sweden, the feeling of coming home only grew more and more intense for the both of us. I don't know if it was because we were both psyched about actually buying our own piece of property or if it was something deeper, but when we got to our land and finally stood on it, we both had this deep feeling like "Here is where we belong." We both just stood there, silent and calm. The rest of the world didn't exist. It was just us and the land. The feeling of connection to that particular piece of land is difficult to describe.


Leaving to go back to California was heart-breaking. We've been back once more since then, and staying in California now feels like the annoyance of being stuck at work when you want to go home.


Of peculiar interest is that both he and I have ancestors who lived in the area a couple of hundred years ago, and there was at least one marriage...
 
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