The Life of Lyn: Home

Monday, May 9, 2011

Home

It seems like a simple enough word. Four letters. One syllable. Home. It really shouldn't be complicated.

Well, mine is. My family is in northern Indiana. I lived there for the first 19 years of my life. After that, it was on to North Carolina for college. And, now I live in Colorado.

That means that I am over 1,000 miles away from my family. And, I'm about 1,600 miles away from some of my very best friends. Sometimes I get incredibly homesick, for both my Indiana family and my North Carolina friends.

My awkward sleep schedule, living so far away from work, and living in a very small town of families (Philip and I are the only couple without children in our neighborhood) hasn't been very conducive to making friends. I have made a few really awesome friends, but it doesn't take away the homesickness.

I am really close to my family. And, my college buddies were the first true friends that I ever had. They understood me and were there for me through some crazy stuff. So, I'm just going to always miss them.

It may seem that a simple solution would be to move back to Indiana (or North Carolina). It's not that easy. I don't like Indiana. The only reason I really go back to the state is because of my family (and the racetracks!). Indiana has cornfields, cornfields, more cornfields, and some bean fields thrown in to add a little flavor. It's also really humid (no me gusta). I also spent a lot of my childhood and teen years feeling like a freak. As I said earlier, I didn't have any real friends until college.

Indiana has a lot of people who I'd just as soon forget exist: closed-minded, ignorant people. While those people exist everywhere, I've found a whole lot less of them in Colorado.

Colorado is also breathtakingly beautiful. I have lived here almost a year and I still can't believe the awesome views I get on my way to work every morning. The mountains are absolutely gorgeous.