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The Concept of Home

// May 16th, 2009 // Ramblings

I’ve often thought about writing on my little adventure, but I haven’t really felt compelled to write about anything until now.  I’ve been keeping my Twitter and Flickr updated, but the thought of typing anything over 140 characters is absolutely fatiguing.  (Ahh! The thought of putting myself our there! Terrifying!)

Lately I’ve been thinking  a lot about home, what it is, and what it means to really be “home”.  I haven’t even really been gone all that long; maybe a month?  That is a blip on the enduring, yet finite map of life.

What is home?  Is it a place?  Is it a state of mind?  Is it the people that surround you?

Being away from North Carolina has really made me think about this.  NC will forever be special to me.  It is where I was born and raised.  A majority of my family and friends live there.  It has many redeeming qualities not found anywhere else.  There are a handful of people there I would love to stuff in my back pocket and take with me everywhere I go.  With that being said, part of me wants to go elsewhere for a period of time.

I still need to put more thought into this whole pipe dream, but I thought I should externalize a bit of this process.

Keeping it positive one day at a time.  I’m a very lucky person right now.