Left and Leaving – Places I'd Rather Go Back to Than Be

My dear friend Ryan was kind enough to do a guest blog for 'Charity Dawn's Big City Adventure'. Please give a warm round of applause to Ryan Hill....

Being away from home makes some things rough, being more detached from a lot of extended family you barely saw to begin with, not being able to store crap in you parent's basement, having to constantly pay rent… it adds up.

I've had a few friends who have headed oversees for school, my sister recently moved to Japan, a colleague at work is moving to San Francisco to get married, I left home for school a couple years ago and haven't moved back home since. There's something about being away.

The initially unfamiliar becomes the new standard. The uncomfortably new becomes the newly comfortable. The process doesn't really take that long. This isn't to say that homesickness doesn't exist – it's just that it's not that big a deal. People drift, they forget who you are and what you're up to. You have to really try to remember when people add you to facebook. It happens – but it's totally fine.

Being away from home often means being someplace you want to be, rather than someplace you just are. It's not that home is bad or a place you don't love, it's just a place you'd rather go back to than a place you need to constantly be.

*be sure to visit ryan at his blog http://saxby.blogspot.com