Home
Walk a hundred miles
Then walk a hundred more
Away from the place you used to know
Embrace all the change
Find a way to rearrange
Your feelings inside, never let them show
That's the life I led
That's all I've ever had
Fleeting scenes of memories passing by
But it never bothered me,
No I've never shed a tear
And I never ever stopped and wondered why
Till I found you.
Till I found my friends.
And now I've come to hope
This is where my journey ends.
I have said goodbye
A thousand times before
And I'll try, I'll try
To hold on to something more
For the very first time
I don't want to be alone
For the first time I can
Say that I am home
I don't wanna say goodbye
'Cuz I am home
- Home (Zecora's Song) by MandoPony
As I write this, I'm sitting in the terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport waiting for my flight to Brussels, Belgium. As many of you already know, I'm moving there.
Life has moved fast in the last few months. I only learned about this in late April, and immediately we went into "moving mode"
We've rented out our house in St. Louis, bought a Minivan, sold the old cars, put things into storage, and shipped our other things. Right after we were done with that, we were moved on a military Temporary Lodging Facility (TLF) as we waited for my dad's change of command. After that, we drove to Michigan and toured there, then drove to New Jersey to live with relatives for a while.
It feels like we're nomads.
This isn't the first time I've moved, and it probably won't be the last. In all, this will be my tenth move. I rarely get to live somewhere for over a year or two, and I often don't get to keep friendships.
When I make friends, I know that I'll leave them in a very short time. Yeah, there's facebook and all that but a lot of people just don't remember me. When I moved, I left one life and had to start another.
Until I over a year ago, when I became a Brony and joined the MLP forums.
I was surprised how welcoming the community was. I almost feel like I grew up here, so to speak. I made friends, goofed off, discussed, been enlightened, and have been comforted by these forums. There is something homely about it.
That's what this is to me. It's like my home. It's a home I don't have to leave when I move. I may not be the most active guy here, but I still always consider this to be the place I belong to on the Internet, and right now the world.
So I'm off to Belgium, a new adventure in my life. Just know that I'll stay here, because this is home.
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