For Humanities yesterday afternoon, our class was supposed to skim two excerpts, each from a different reading, and in class we decided which one we would like to read further. I confess, (as I did to the teacher,) I did not do the reading. ONLY because when I clicked the link it took me to one of those obnoxious "page not found" pages. Apparently at 5 PM on Monday night, all the links stopped working for some reason so thankfully I wasn't the only one with issues who didn't do the reading. Even though I didn't do the readings, I picked up on a lot of key points from the readings that got me thinking and my mind wandered a bit.
One of the readings was called Where is Home, and a woman finds herself contemplating where she's from and where her home is because a cab driver asks her "Where are you from?" Or something like that… I didn't do the reading… remember?
Nonetheless, this struck a chord with me because I find the concept of "home" to be quite strange. As it was mentioned in class, Freshman in college find themselves in an awkward situation when they call their dorms "home" because they still feel like where they previously lived (with their parents, grandparents, guardians, etc,) is their home. This differs from me because I refer to my dad's house as my dad's house, not as my house, and this begs the question why.
Well, person who apparently begs questions. Calm down, no need to beg...
It's because I have a broad idea of where home is. I don't consider home to be within a specific house or pre-defined boundaries of any size. I consider wherever I find myself to be home. I may find myself to be in strange new environments at times, but I consider them all home. I don't mean to say there are not places where I have felt more comfortable than others, I specifically feel very "at home" while backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains or while spending time on the Athenian campus, but I never consider myself to be completely separate and isolated from a specific place I call "home." While most people would say that a home should be restricted to a certain area of a certain size, I think this is only for people who want to go back to that area for an extended stay. I feel like this is then restrictive and the concept of home can become something that puts undesired limitations on one's potential, and I don't want to do that to myself. I have no specific concept of home, and everyone I've told this to thinks I'm absolutely nuts.
This is kind of becoming a regular thing for me. I think to much and people think I'm nuts.
So you heard I like Mudkips? Yeah, I know...
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