I tried to last night but my wife had changed all the locks. The past seems to take on a life of its own. Things that have happened and places where we have lived and grown up take on a different quality when we look back from a distance created by time. Even when I drive by where I grew up it is like being where I have never been. You can't recapture the past, but it is fun to try, if only in our dreams.
2007-09-05 05:03:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Oh, was he ever right.
One BIG reason you can't go home again is that, during your absence, two changes have transpired: 1. You've changed; 2. "Home" has changed.
And your "memories" of what "home" was once like are almost certainly misleading, anyway - with the "good" being accentuated while the "bad" has been diminished or eliminated.
Another author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote about a character named Gatsby:
"An intriguing exchange between Nick and Gatsby takes place near the end of Chapter Six: “I
wouldn’t ask too much of her,” Nick says “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?”
Gatsby cries out. “Why of course you can!”
Well, as Jay found out - you can't.
2007-09-05 05:12:06 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-31 13:21:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you have seen yourself, things change in our perception just by having time pass.
Every day that we live, our perception of life changes due to experiences and people. So that after a while, we have changed as well as places/people changing, that nothing seems even remotely like we remember it.
And as far as going back home, forget about it. My son just turned 18 and wanted to move back to Atlanta where he left about 3 years ago. I tried to tell him that everything would be different, but he wouldn't listen. Most of his friends have moved away and the ones that were left, were not the same as he remembered them. It only took him 2 months and he moved away from there.
It reminds me of how quickly things change when I return home for the holidays to my father's house where I spent 18 years growing up. Nothing seems the same and there is always the feeling that they still belong there but I no longer do.
2007-09-05 05:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by Goyo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will Rogers said :
" Everyone has deep in their heart the old town or community where they first went barefoot, got their first licking, traded their first pocketknife, grew up and finally went away thinking they were too big for that burg. But that's where your heart is."
You can't go home again in the sense that it will be the same..it won't be, The house may still look the same..folks living there the same...but, nothing else will be...that old feeling will be gone, you've moved on..just left memories there
and you can revisit them anytime without going back...
2007-09-05 05:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by Boopsie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home is what you believe. Things that come up in life that are heartbreaking and unsatisfying can be linked to a memory that gives comfort and strength for whatever the problem. I believe you can always find home in your heart. My home is where I was raised for 22 years. Home is where my family is and home is where I want to live even when I am miles away. My mom and dad raised my siblings to always remember home. Its not just a house with rooms but it is the familiarity of memories and the people who love you.
2007-09-05 05:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by akds 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was right on the money, and most of the time the past is better in our dreams. Why spoil your own perception of reality by revisiting it?
2007-09-05 05:08:38 · answer #6 · answered by YAWritergirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was. Life keeps moving long after we leave a place and hopefully, we leave it better than we found it but it'll still be different should we go back.
2007-09-05 05:11:10 · answer #7 · answered by Just Me Alone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never -ever want to go 'home'
Unfortunately at times 'home ' will haunt me in my dreaming and my husband has to wake me up .
2007-09-05 11:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Bemo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After closing time I can't find my home to go back to.
2007-09-05 05:30:02 · answer #9 · answered by Spade, Sam Spade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋