Hometown Blues

It is often in life that you may move away to another place, leaving your hometown behind. New journeys take us on explorations, making us grow stronger. What is it about your hometown that makes you crave to be back. Do you have the same things in your new town as your hometown? Do you have family in your hometown, but not in the new town? Are you missing friends that you grew up with from your hometown?

Let’s start with what makes it your hometown. Born and raised, you grow up in the only known world, till you start exploring and learn. Being born in a town gives anyone that home feeling, or simply, a place to call home.

Then, as you grow old enough to start school, you soon build relationships with other kids. Relationships make us settle into one place. We need to have someone to share our experiences with. Experiencing the world alone can be very lonely, and no person wants to be lonely. Gaining friendship is crucial to our role as human beings. Friends provide support and trust, in turn, build our character and personality.

If you left your home town, then you would leave your friends behind. Leaving the ones you already know, perhaps the ones that you grew up means leaving that experience of building your character and personality behind. What do I mean when I say this? Well, when you gain experience in anything, it leaves a dent. It is something that you cannot forget. The memories you get to look back on make growing up with friends that much more important. If you can say that your friends were always there for you, supported you, or that you and your friends got into trouble together, that leaves room for lifetime memories. A perfectly good reason why one might get the hometown blues.

What about work life? Does your job pull you away from your hometown, giving you hometown blues? Who wants to leave their hometown to go work elsewhere? Sometimes we just have to. Especially if it means providing for the family. Some people may have the option of staying in their hometown while traveling back and forth to their jobs. Giving them more reason why they may grow weary of their job, only to desire a place of rest in their hometown. Hometown blues can definitely set in when you are on the road.

One last reason someone may experience hometown blues, is leaving their family behind. Are you close to you family? Do you spend every holiday with your family? It is times like these that make moving away hard. The simple thought of celebrating holidays without family can be disheartening. Then, when your family starts asking when you are coming home, you fall deeper into the hometown blues. When you know that someone is earning for your return, the thought of returning home only makes you feel better in the moment. When you try to forget about it, those hometown blues lie deep within.

If you have ever experienced hometown blues, then maybe after reading this, you will have some insight to why you feel that way. Just don’t get too sick.