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Can't stop dreaming about hometown.
2016-03-12 10:00:45 Post No. 16906557
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Can't stop dreaming about hometown.
Anonymous
2016-03-12 10:00:45
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Last year I used the money I got from wedding gifts to visit my homeland as part of my honeymoon and so my wife could finally meet my family. We had stayed in my parent's house where I had grown up and while it was very nice, things had drastically changed in the last five years since I had last visited.
My grandpa had passed away, I couldnt attend the funeral. His wife now suffers heavy Alzheimers so it took a few days to convince her I wasn't her soon (I look exactly like my dad). A very dear family pet was also gone. A lot of my first cousins are living abroad so I couldnt get to see all of them. The area outside my parent's condo building where I used to play a lot with the neighborhood kids has changed drastically too..
But I think what killed me the most was that the house I grew up in also didn't very much feel the same. My parents had been trying to empty it out so they could either sell it or rent it, but even though it still contained most of the furniture I grew up with, including the wooden cabinet where they hid pokemon red version before gifting it to me and my brother on xmas in the year that it came out, also the bunkbed my bro and I slept in was still there, but the whole place just felt very haunting to me. The bathroom was drastically redone too. I think the fact that my hometown was very windy also didn't help, making the windows rattle and stuff. But what made it worse was that the ceiling of the condo was getting moldy, due to the upper condo being left abandoned with the windows open all year round. I just want my parents to sell the damn place.
So as you can see, my homecountry means a lot to me. Seeing all those drastic changes and how old my family had grown I think killed me a little inside. This, I think has affected my at a deeper level than I thought where as the vast majority of my dreams since I came back take place in my hometown or with the people I reunited with. I think I'm more intrigued than I am worried.
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