...Don't really want to go home.

Somethought's picture
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I'm on spring break. It began on Friday and I'm going home on Sunday. I stayed the two extra days, partially due to the fact I wanted to exercise and bike here in the amazing mountains in mostly solidarity, partially due to the fact I wanted to clean my room, but mostly it boils down to: I'm just not jumping hot to go "home".
What is home anyway, right? Home is where the heart is. Then home is here in my own breast, and it is wherever I choose to roam or rest.
But I do feel like I'm roaming or resting a lot of the time. Am I "Some Thought", meandering around the edges of a lake in your town? Am i walking down streets at night reflecting colours in their rainy response, or on windy hillsides overlooking the town lights?
I hate the house I live in. My siblings are the worst. My mother denies in her mind any blemishes-they just wash over her eyes, like some joke she refuses to get.
This past Christmas there was that undercurrent screaming tension in all of us - as usual it turned to that cutthroat jabbing at each other. My mother goes, "is there just some great animosity that I don't know about?"
...APPARENTLY NO FUCKING SHIT. you've made sure you dont know about it.
I give her a lot of slack in daily life, I always have. Too much, i think. I'm more of a practical thinker, so instead of throwing fits to get a raise in allowance when I'm seven, I understand that whether she pays for groceries or gives it to me in allowance, its all the same and going to the same place; in addition to the fact I'm one of five kids and I don't need need it right then.
When I'm financially self-sufficient I can really step back and take a look if I want to keep her in my life at all. As a Russian, German, and Norwegian, I can be very practical, efficient and cold. I already know my brother Nick is going to be involved in nothing of my future life. He has been the source of a lot of undeserved abuse in my own house; ignored verbal, physical, and mental abuse.
That does not fly, mama.
I dont know why people are always squawking about how you should this and that with and about your family -
There is no reason why I should keep such an unneeded negative influence in my life. I grew up in a house of neglect, but I will not neglect the need to love, respect, and hear myself.
I really hope my week at home goes okay this time. God I hate this. The atmosphere makes me feel like I have no substance. No weight. Once upon a time I gained weight so I could feel like I had some. Not now, but still the ambiance is that i cant be heard, and my actions wont be respected. I'm respected everywhere but at the house.

kariskoett's picture

I feel you. Sometimes I pretend that I want to go home just to attempt being normal. And what is normal, right? I want to have the "home" that I can't wait to get to. And right now it is 5,000 miles away from my mom's house. The popular question, "Are you going home for Christmas?" Yeah, well, for a few days. "Don't you want to spend time with your family?" A week is plenty long enough, thank you. And every time I get excited about going home, I am inevitably disappointed - things never ever change. I am still small, still treated like a child, still disrespected, still made to feel like nothing. It gets real old, real fast. So hang in there, kid. You're not alone. And you'll make it - you'll get out of there - you'll be independent and stable and self-sufficient. You will. Because you rock.

I like reading your writing.

http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/kariskoett

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
-Buddha

Somethought's picture

Thanks, that definitely means a lot.

Whats hard to live and remember sometimes is the fact that even if the people around you can't appreciate you, doesn't mean you're not worth appreciation.
Its interesting to see who has similar stories as well, you didnt mind cracking open a little. It helps to know people can relate.

Take care.

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