Everyone just wants to go "home"

[SoCalDem]

No matter their age, sex, nationality they want to go home.

We can all relate to this. We look forward to a wonderful vacation.We plan and plan and pack and re-pack. We endure airport delays or traffic jams to get there, and as the vacation winds down,all we think about is how good it will feel to get HOME....to kick off your shoes, go through your mail, play with the pets again, call your friends to tell them you are back...and to sleep in your own bed with your own pillows.

We watch the news after hurricanes and 99% of the time, through their tears, they say the same thing.. This is home.. we'll re-build.. we love it here... (some of us question their wisdom, but it's ultimately their choice)

We watch the ragtag, soot-stained people escaping from wild fires that routinely sweep through the canyons and destroy their homes and landscapes that originally attracted them, and yet..they too say.. "We will rebuild.. we love it here.. It's our HOME..

We watch tonado victims as they pick through bits of rubble that used to be their home.. they pause and pick up a damp baby picture, and through their tears, they say the same.. we'll rebuild, we love it here ..it's our HOME..

We see it in every war too, no matter who the winner is or the loser. The winners cannot wait to return to the safety of their loved ones back "home" who only want their soldier back. No matter the reason they are fighting in a place NOT their home, they think ONLY about their home and the people there waiting for them.

The people caught up in lost wars, are "home", but they don;t recognize it. They have every reason to leave, and some flee temporarily, but they still see that place as HOME, and at the first opportunity they will be cleaning up the mess and starting over. It's home even when the house is gone.

I would guess that most people, when traveling through a place they used to live, will take a drive past a place they used to live, or a school they attended, or past familiar spots they remember. They usually comment on how much the places have changed. They changed because the person re-seeing them was not there while they changed.

When you leave willingly, you have the comfort of being "able" to return if you choose (even if you have no intention of ever going back....you could)..

Even prisoners who have been incarcerated a long time, actually "miss" being in jail. For them it probably comes down to having to take responsibility for their lives on the "outside", but jail can even be a home.

Being forced out of your home, whether through war, weather, fires, floods..whatever, seems to make the attachment even stronger. Many old Cubans died, still longing for their home, even though they would have not recognized it if they had gone back..

It must be part of the human spirit to attach ourselves to a place, and once we call it home it will always be home, no matter what..