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where will you be may 25th-29th???
cuz i will be in Texas, yay! It has been 9 months since i have been 'home' and it is going to be weird going back.
home...what a weird concept. when there is no house, no family and no friends (during the year) can you really call a place home? Singapore isn't home, i mean my parents are there which qualifies as part of it but it is just a place I live. Texas is moving into that realm that Ohio and Alabama and Japan fit into: places I once lived. DC is really home right now. I have been blessed with wonderful friends who have become a second family and now I will have an apartment (pending that we don't get evicted tonight) and I feel like I have become a part of this city just as much as the WWII monument is now and forever a part of the mall.
What about that saying "home is where the heart is"...my parents keep saying that to me when I get depressed about the move. My heart is in so many different places though. It is in Texas, and Singapore and DC and California and London and Kansas City and Chicago and ...wherever my friends and family are. I have told people that I am homeless in the past year, which is usually an empty situation, but perhaps my homelessness is not because I have nowhere to call my home but instead I have too many places to call my home. I don't know if I really believe in this concept myself but it is growing on me.
I am really excited to go back to Texas no matter what it is to me. I can't wait to drive down Woodlands Parkway and sit outside by a pool and go to Cooper and eat at the country club and maybe I will even drive by my old house...I know that going back will be hard, my mom has always tried to warn me of this, but it is something that I have to face because the cold hard fact is that my life in Texas is a finished chapter of my life.
But that isn't all bad because just as my AIM profile says "the rest is still unwritten"
cuz i will be in Texas, yay! It has been 9 months since i have been 'home' and it is going to be weird going back.
home...what a weird concept. when there is no house, no family and no friends (during the year) can you really call a place home? Singapore isn't home, i mean my parents are there which qualifies as part of it but it is just a place I live. Texas is moving into that realm that Ohio and Alabama and Japan fit into: places I once lived. DC is really home right now. I have been blessed with wonderful friends who have become a second family and now I will have an apartment (pending that we don't get evicted tonight) and I feel like I have become a part of this city just as much as the WWII monument is now and forever a part of the mall.
What about that saying "home is where the heart is"...my parents keep saying that to me when I get depressed about the move. My heart is in so many different places though. It is in Texas, and Singapore and DC and California and London and Kansas City and Chicago and ...wherever my friends and family are. I have told people that I am homeless in the past year, which is usually an empty situation, but perhaps my homelessness is not because I have nowhere to call my home but instead I have too many places to call my home. I don't know if I really believe in this concept myself but it is growing on me.
I am really excited to go back to Texas no matter what it is to me. I can't wait to drive down Woodlands Parkway and sit outside by a pool and go to Cooper and eat at the country club and maybe I will even drive by my old house...I know that going back will be hard, my mom has always tried to warn me of this, but it is something that I have to face because the cold hard fact is that my life in Texas is a finished chapter of my life.
But that isn't all bad because just as my AIM profile says "the rest is still unwritten"