"You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone... You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place."
- Andrew Largeman, Garden State (2004)
- Andrew Largeman, Garden State (2004)
Thought the 'Garden State' quote was relevant. (It's a quirky little indie flick directed by Zach Braff and featuring Natalie Portman...if you're looking for something to watch over Thanksgiving Break.) Don't know about you, but I dragged most of my stuff with me to college. And thanks to my indecisiveness, this includes more than 90% of my closet. So that plus my thousands of pictures, random drawings, and posters makes my room in my house at school feel more like me than my room in my 'home-home' in the Chicago suburbs. There's still nothing like being home with the fam though. SO MUCH YUMMY ORGANIC FOOD. Hope everyone spends a lot of time with family, friends, and food this break. And happy shopping afterwards.
P.S.: Sorry I kinda paused on the China blog. I'll pull out the pictures from that when I have time - so... maybe Winter Break.
Listening to: "The Devil's Tears" - Angus & Julia Stone
