i'm grateful that where i live now feels like home, at the cost of not having an opportunity to return to my hometown since all my family and friends moved out. i wasn't a particularly social or nice child and i was an especially anxious teenager so i would say the thing that most comfortably reminds me of my hometown (which i think is what we're asking?) is usually an especially pretty and empty piece of nature surrounding some sort of suburban building. abandoned sheds, high school baseball fields, porches, the woods behind your house. and of course the games of my childhood: kingdom hearts 2, skyrim, mass effect 2.
Oct 23, 2024
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when i lived in a city i had second, third, fourth, fifth places. i used to go a museum every week, actually good coffee shops, a pocket park nearly every day, the river when it was warm, and a local arcade to play pinball and rhythm games once a month. now i can walk to my parents’ house, the woods, and an Arby’s where i get treated like a princess. theres a pretty cool pedestrian downtown mall but it’s a drive away and i spent so much time there in middle and high school it feels like it’s no longer my third place. plus, there’s not much to do there but spend money. it sounds sad but i live a quieter life and know a lot more bird calls and native plants and get to spend a lot more time with family, especially the 102 year old grandpa.
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see also: having a life that feels like your own, being able to feel happy, having people you care about and who care about you too, no reliance on the transpennine express, living in a place where the world doesn’t end at 5pm, seeing a castle and a big big hill and the moon on the way to see the girl you really really like, being in the position the child you in the small town could only dream of and didn’t believe could happen
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i love going to a party and saying "i should leave soon it's my turn to take stephen to day care in the morning." i don't have a kid. it's these sick little thrills that make life worth living.
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