Homesick

[trixtah]

And, yes, I know it's odd, because I'm here.

You know how it is with a friend you love and feel passionately about, and whom you miss every day, but whom you hardly write to or call because doing so is painful because you miss her/him more? I feel like that with my own country. It's going to be very very hard going back on Sunday. Partly because of some not-that-dire situations I'll have to deal with when I get back, but mainly because I'll miss this place so much.

Oh well, it's good that I get as much time here as I do these days. It isn't like when I was living in England, and I could only make it back for one week in 5 years.

Comments

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how you feel. I got to Christchurch, my home town, once or twice a year. Each time there's something different. I miss the place I grew up in, and sometimes Christchurch looks and feels like that place, and sometimes it really really doesn't.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's strange being a tourist in your own town(s) (since I actually consider myself to be more a transplanted Wellingtonian than Aucklander these days). Auckland's downtown waterfront is almost unrecognisable. And driving around between unfamilar areas is getting really challenging with the changes to roading. And yet there are those pockets that are almost the same as they were 30 years ago... the trees are a little taller now.

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

*pats*

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Thank you for pats, eee.

I got more of them from other people too, and it's all made me feel much better. I'm lucky to have the people I do in my life, on both sides of the ditch.

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

This would indeed be the reason I like visiting Hamilton on occasion.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Indeedy.

Although, while I was living in Wellington, I had very little interest in visiting Auckland - it wasn't that acute. I think the only things I missed while I was there was hot pools (thermal pools, but you get them in plenty of other places) and kauri trees (which I'll post pix of at some point - Wellington is too far south for them to grow). I think I'd feel more homesick-in-the-same-country if I had to live in the South Island, though - the climate is quite different, and so are the trees.

[filkferengi]

The side of me that read far too much angsty French poetry in my insufficiently-misspent youth says to savor your melancholie like a fine wine. [insert cheesy aksohn here.]

I'm glad you're enjoying your trip home & your friends "Both Sides The Ditch" [which would scan to "Both Sides The Tweed"].

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Heh, I mustn't have read enough angsty French poetry at the right age - I hate feeling dismal like that. :-)

But yes, it's been nice, folkie earworms and all!

[filkferengi]

Well, to be fair, I also emailed you some filkie earworms. I think you'll enjoy the "Sex and Chocolate," inter alia. ;)