Run away...Far away...
Has anybody else ever just wanted to move? My sister Aleisha is moving to Tennessee for culinary school. She just decided that the best thing to help her to get her life under control would be to move far away and start all over. We were talking about it and Josh didn't get what we meant. I've sort of always wanted to do the same thing. All through school it kind of seemed that moving was bad. What kid wants to pack up and leave friends and all else behind and go somewhere else. But it's also a new chance at a beginning. If you go to a place where nobody knows you you can literally be anything. If you stay in one location, no matter how hard you try to change, you're friend, and even the people who aren't your friends, have always seen you as one way and that's the way they will treat you. If you move you can choose to be called whatever nickname you want. Like Aleisha would rather be called Ali..but after 5+ years as Aleisha it's next to impossible to get everybody she knows to call her Ali. Your past becomes a blip on the radar screen. They don't know whether you were most popular or geekiest in high school. They don't know your parents or your siblings or your aunts and uncles. They don't have preconceived notions of how they expect you to act or dress because they've never met you. They never grew up around you...or watched you grow up. It's always been a possibility that called to me. That I could move somewhere entirely new. I could be whoever I want to be. And while I'm going to miss her, I understand where she's coming from. But when Josh was giving us funny looks while we talked about the chance to reinvent ourselves, it made me wonder, how many people don't see moving as a chance at a new beginning. Which viewpoint is actually more common.