going home/leaving home

 
I didn't take any pictures while I was home. I kept forgetting to take out my camera. Or maybe it was that I just think that cameras get in the way sometimes of actually experiencing the moment. But I still wish I had taken a few.

Home and I always seem to travel further apart from each other in many ways. The distance becomes harder to span, the food begins to seem foreign, and it becomes harder to explain what is going on in my life to family and friends.

My generation is a generation that travels, lands, flits, flutters, and flirts with a new home until picking it up and traveling again. My generation changes addresses as often as their shoes. They also gather new friends at an alarming speed. Their trends, their interests, their clothing, their jobs rapidly transform with the blink of an eye.

For instance, vegetarianism is not uncommon in my family. What is uncommon is the act of vegetarianism becoming a life choice. Food choices wax and wane, from omnivores to vegans, from organic fans to Walmart produce consumers. I admit, I'm part of this too, as I continue to remove animal products and processed food from my diet while always being tempted to cheat whenever I'm home from lack of healthy choices being readily available.

This year, I also decided not to go Black Friday shopping with my friends. Granted, I never usually bought anything anyways, and always went for the companionship and humor my high school friends never seem to run out of. But this year, I couldn't bring myself to even stand at the doors. It was all a bit sad to me, watching the people on the evening news fight over televisions and X-boxes because they believe this would bring them happiness.

I did end up going to the mall later with my sister, but we were both bored to tears and returned home empty handed after getting a coffee from a local coffee joint and visiting with Grandma.

Home has changed, and so have I. We've both grown, in different ways. And yet, I always look forward to coming home.

How has home made you aware of how you have changed? Do you dread or look forward to going home, or is there a little of both?

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