doitrockapella: (LOOK ❖ god lee stop being such a tool)
Carmen Sandiego ([personal profile] doitrockapella) wrote in [personal profile] leftinbasketforfbi 2012-09-23 09:15 pm (UTC)

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That's really the overarching point. You still have that tie to the world you left behind, and so that stands in the way of you accepting this world as a place you could call a home.

But for some people you encounter here, those ties aren't as strong. Some might see it as turning over a new leaf, or a fresh start, or a new chance. Some forge friendships here that become their new families, the people they care about enough to not want to leave behind. Some people come from worlds ravaged by war, and the prospect of a place where no one will ever die seems like nothing short of a dream come true.

My point is, some people cling to the past, and that's a natural course of action. Others might choose to live solely in the present, wherever that might be at the time.

It's all right for you to miss home, and to try to move heaven and earth to get back to it. But if you find yourself asking why some people don't, or why more people haven't, it's because some of them have developed stronger ties here than to the places they left, and others don't have homes to return to at all.

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