Saturday, April 19, 2008
Home
My family has never made their home outside of the Northeast. I've grown up in Connecticut my entire life, and my even my grandparents have always lived in the Northeast. Home is usually a comforting concept to me (and sometimes not), but always retains a sense of conventionality and the mundane. Middle class suburbs lose their charm after a while, and have inspired me to look outside to find a more unique, culturally rich, even a more urban place to make my home after college. However, it may be difficult to adjust, because even when I went just as far as Louisiana this past summer, I was both excited by and surprised by the profound difference from the places I've always grown up. Even though my home seems conventional and boring, I think I'll always find comfort in its familiarity.
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I know what you are saying about the mundaneness and conventionality that is associated with what home is. I think that especially coming from Connecticut, where while major cities are in reach, most of the time is spent in the same old suburb doing the same old thing ever day. I am actually surprised that more people don't flee that place as soon as they turn eighteen. I think that people need to get out of what is comfortable and what I would consider boring. But a lot of people (some of my friends) seem to take comfort in spending their entire life in the same town, doing the same thing and never expanding their horizons. I feel like to experience life, not just suburbia at its finest you need to get out of there.
Ok that might have sounded harsh, not that I don't LOVE the people there. I just really never want to spend extended periods of time there.
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