There have been a lot of things going on in my life which has left little time for oringal thought on this blog. There was a comment on Postsecret that I read today and it seemed to sum up some of my thoughts fairly well. Enjoy...
"You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place." -Garden State
Christmas in Canada
7 years ago
6 comments:
So true... I'll always remember my first trip back - 2 years after leaving 'home' a continent away. It had become a different place - mostly because I'd changed and everyone's lives there had gone on without me being a part of it. It's still nice to hang onto those warm fuzzy thoughts though - they can help you through some tough times.
I don't think I have ever really experienced this. Probably since I moved every couple years and the house was never an important part of my childhood. Except that I use which house I lived in as a reference point for my age when certain memories were created.
I LOVE this quote. I think I find Garden State a profound and moving movie because it's about someone in my stage of life finding himself.
Time puts a weird perspective on things in your head. I remember coming back from a mission thinking that the idealized home I remember and the real home are two totally different things.
What's this? A Garden State quote that doesn't involve Natalie Portman and The Shins. I haven't heard one of those for a while.
That quote is profound...mostly because I totally relate too.
eyun is so clever it makes me yawn. and so one note.
interesting that you should quote something that is summing up how you feel about your life these days, which has a strong undercurrent of sadness and this is what he feels the need to comment on.
anyhow, i hope all is well with you.
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