travis hollandJul 28, 2017

#smallstories

Tonight I returned for a visit to the area I grew up, after my longest ever absence. It's a place I always missed if I'd been gone even a few days, aching for the landscape and trees. Tonight, I noticed small things that had changed - a new section of kerb and gutter, a blooming housing development, repainted road markings.

Tonight, it felt different. I no longer live here, and I don't feel the connection I've always felt. Now it doesn't feel like home.

Show threaddogtrax
@travisaholland It's always strange when memory collides with reality, and change in the landscape of youth ... I have had the same experience as you ...
Jul 28, 2017 at 11:01amAmaroq
Show threadtravis hollandJul 28, 2017
@dogtrax I really haven't been away very long - I moved a little over a year ago and I've been here in 2017 already, but the drive in along the same roads I've driven thousands of times just didn't feel the same.