Live Storytelling at The Bookworm: HOME
Posted: April 25th, 2013 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: Upcoming Events | Tags: Home, Kadi Hughes, Live Storytelling, Outdoor Terrace, Putong Hua, The Bookworm | No Comments »
For many of us living and based in Beijing, it seems that the longer we stay abroad, the more blurry our sense of “home” becomes.
After more than 6 1/2 years in Beijing and over 4 years in my current apartment, I still haven’t made any effort whatsoever in making my residence look or feel a little more home-y and why should I? To me, it’s a temporary place to sleep and shower before I’m back at work and out and about town the majority of each passing day. I don’t even eat at my apartment. I’d rather call it “the place I rent” or “the place I sleep”, but not ever “my home”. It’s not worthy of that title.
I’d be more inclined to call the house I grew up in my home, but even that doesn’t feel so right anymore. Since moving to China in 2006, my parents have since completely remodeled the house and realizing I only spend about a week a year back there when I make my annual trip back for Christmas, distorts my idealized childhood memories further. Upon reflection, it becomes more clear that, over the years, it’s become more my parents’ home than the home I cherished in the first 2/3 of my life. So what does that make me? Lost? A drifter? Without a sense of strong foundations? Absolutely not. It’s just not as clear-cut as it once was.
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