Break was really, really good. I bummed around town with my parents, fed a lot of ducks on an almost-daily basis, went for lots of walks in the woods, and watched deer
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I love how my parents' house has become sort of a haven, a solid place where I feel safe and relatively happy. It never felt like that until I left for Earlham.I don't want to gripe about living in a dorm room, but it just feels so very temporary. Not like home. I feel the same way. I was so depressed when I came back here on Saturday just because I didn't want to leave. Living in a dorm room does feel so temporary and strange- no matter how homey you make it- it's someplace that you live for only a semester or two not really anytime at all. Although for me home isn't a place-lord knows we've moved enough- but it's my Mum and my step-dad and my pets-where ever they are that's home for me. I'm glad that you had a good break, though. You totally deserved the rest and comfort after some of the stupid things that you've gone through lately.
I feel just the opposite. Earlham feels alot more like home to me that the house where my parents live in San Antonio. Dorm life kinda sucks...yeah... and home cooked meals all the time are great too, but that just feels temporary. I have felt like a guest at my house ever since I left for college. My bro does most of the chores that used to be mine (not that I'm complaining) and my parents don't seem to know how to treat me when I am home. Depending on their mood I have total freedom or none at all. I just know that as soon as I graduate from college, I am not going back there for any extended period of time. I always feel infinately happier once I get to earlham and can be around my friends and on my own. It is kinda wierd, I guess, but that is how I feel at least.
That's not weird at all, just different. Maybe it has to do with how our respective sets of parents treat us... I agree that I would go crazy if my parents treated me like a guest when I'm back in Chicago. I'm sure it also has to do with us, as people. You definitely seem much more independent and all that good stuff than I am... I need a lot of stability in my life in order to stay sane, and you seem a lot more versatile and adaptable than that.
For me, it's not that I want to go back home for any length of time after college or anything- even summer kind of gets to me because it's too long living in their house. I would be much happier if I had my own apartment or place to live in general (meaning for more than a semester or two, like a dorm room), in Chicago. That way I would get the stability I need in terms of living in one place, plus the added bonus of being close to my family without living under their roof.
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I feel the same way. I was so depressed when I came back here on Saturday just because I didn't want to leave. Living in a dorm room does feel so temporary and strange- no matter how homey you make it- it's someplace that you live for only a semester or two not really anytime at all. Although for me home isn't a place-lord knows we've moved enough- but it's my Mum and my step-dad and my pets-where ever they are that's home for me.
I'm glad that you had a good break, though. You totally deserved the rest and comfort after some of the stupid things that you've gone through lately.
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For me, it's not that I want to go back home for any length of time after college or anything- even summer kind of gets to me because it's too long living in their house. I would be much happier if I had my own apartment or place to live in general (meaning for more than a semester or two, like a dorm room), in Chicago. That way I would get the stability I need in terms of living in one place, plus the added bonus of being close to my family without living under their roof.
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I reference this as another way in which we are very alike!
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hugs, stephanie
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