How did I ever move from “I want to leave this house” to “I want to go back home badly?” What happened? Hehehe, I guess life happened.
I remember threatening everyone in my family that I was gonna disappear one day. I remember making mindblowing plans of when I’d leave my father’s house and I remembered vividly how I packed my bags and left for another city to start my life all alone. Years later, I just want to wake up in my father’s house and be in the presence of every single member of my family.
No matter how we try to look at it “There’s no place like home”. We really don’t know how much we miss our families until we are far away from home.
I miss the daily fights, arguments, gossip, division of labour, and everything in between. This was what made my father’s house my father’s house and what also sets my father’s house apart from mine.
As much as my siblings drive me crazy and I have to sometimes question if we were birthed by the same parents, I still want to wake up in the same house as them but then again distance keeps getting in the way but hey we are managing just fine😃
All thanks to technology for helping us stay in touch.
To date, I’m so grateful for being born in this digital age where talking to my family is not so difficult. I can’t imagine sending letters and waiting for my sibling's letters to get to me. I can’t imagine paying ridiculous amounts just to speak to them on the phone.
I love how technology has helped bridge the distance between me and my family.
No day passes without me talking to any of my siblings and when we do it, it does feel like we are living in the same house and occasionally we have group calls and these calls could go on for hours.
Do we need to see ourselves? We plan towards it and that involves us taking our annual leaves around the same time so we could all be present at home. Sometimes it can be pretty difficult but we always try our best to make it work😃
Reuniting with my family is always amazing. Whenever we are around it’s always fun-filled as there are no dull moments.
The first few days are less chaotic as everyone is still basking in the euphoria of being back home but give us some time and you’d be entertained by real drama and for this drama you don’t get to pay a dime for it as you get to experience it live and trust me these actors are damn good!
The bickering, disagreement, and tussles sets in and everyone begins to wish they were back at their various houses but give it time we’d all forget about everything and just continue to live like the one big family that we are😂 crazy right? My family members can be something else sometimes but I love them like that and I will never trade them for anything else.
Now that I am older and know better, I wish I could go back in time to advise my younger self to exercise patience as there would be so many years to live alone.
This is my entry to the thoughtful daily prompt week 37.
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