Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it.
🔗 Geography is four-dimensional
But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore.
💬 Derek Sivers
When it gets down to it I always - always refer to myself as English. On first introduction maybe a Brit - or British - but deep down … English.
And - there is my ‘home’ - but haven’t really lived there much in my life.
I was close to nine before I even got to the country that I wasn’t even born in and lived in the US longer than I ever lived in the UK - and now down here in New Zealand. And the magnet that is home pulls me there - but I know enough that it isn’t the place I left.
I am in New Zealand and not (yet at least) returning to the USA - because I know that isn’t what it used to be. And that just isn’t to do with the clown. I found myself disenchanted with Silicon Valley fifteen years ago - even living in it - it was clear that “‘It’s’ not like that anymore” … Fifteen years later … other people seem to be catching up.
Home? Definitely - where I hang my hat in a day-to-day sense.
Spiritually? England - no doubt - even though it’s not like that anymore.
From? What’s the context?