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Cringe
Home sickness attacks me when I am gone for only a month. {{{{HUGS}}}} Hope you are feeling better tomorrow.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 21, 2007 at 7:46 PM
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Cringe
I agree with Nautikos just relax and know this is a part of it. Know you are welcome and that you are missed at home as well.
posted by
Justi
on August 21, 2007 at 7:42 PM
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That's definitely to be expected when you're so far way from home and everything you know. And we all need a good cry now and then. Maybe you should write down the things you DON'T like about home to make you feel better. Or better yet, just send me a plane ticket and I'll gladly go check it out for you to make sure you still remember it correctly.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on August 21, 2007 at 3:45 PM
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Cringe
Find a nice Irish pub and have a Guinness, 
!
Seriously though, I can understand it, I think it's an inevitable reaction! And it will take a while until you think of where you are now as 'home.' And maybe that will happen only when, after a few years, you go back for a visit, and find that it isn't any longer what it was, that your imagination remembers it differently...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 21, 2007 at 2:21 PM
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Don't look out the window.
posted by
FactorFiction
on August 21, 2007 at 11:37 AM
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I found I was very nostalgic when I was in the USA for a spell, but
it's only an idealised version of home we become attached to. I know that coz when I went back home I hated it! It sounds like you're enjoying things on the whole.
posted by
Antonionioni
on August 21, 2007 at 11:25 AM
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Sorry, Cringe, the extreme bout of homesick will soon fade a bit,
but home is always in the back of your mind, the longing to see it is there somewhere under the busy-ness and clutter of the here and now. Take out the album, look at the pictures and wallow for a few minutes.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 21, 2007 at 4:19 AM
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