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Sometimes the places I’ve lived in merge together. A memory will come to mind in the form of a smell, taste, or picture and I’ll struggle to think of where and when that memory is from.
On more than one occasion I’ve forgotten where I live completely. A fleeting moment where my brain is going through mundane to do lists and then I’ll try to picture our current house and it will come back as a blur. Where do I live? Why can’t I picture the front door? The living room?
I bought this up in a conversation with Mrs SavingNinja and she admitted to it happening to her as well.
Maybe this is down to being modern day vagabonds. We’ve lived in fourteen different homes in the past 16 years, three different countries and two different US states in the past 4 years alone.
We’ve experienced life in a lot of different places. Our world view has grown and we gained a deeper understanding of ourselves and what’s out there. But at what cost?
I think deep inside, there is a longing to feel a connecting to a single place, the very definition of the word home builds on this:
“It is widely understood in human psychology as a place of refuge, emotional safety, and stability, where one can retreat from the pressures of the outside world.”
We haven’t got the stability part.
We’ve moved so much that no where really feels like home anymore. Yes, we can settle in a place for a while and begin to feel attached to it, but we know that we won’t be here for long. And there is an aversion to choosing our “forever home”.
How can we choose one place when there are so many options?
How do we know it will be the right choice?
These are the questions that we’re trying to answer this year.
Right now, Scotland seems like it has potential. We’ve visited twice and there are locations that we like. But, there are fledgling ideas at work that might mean going back to the USA is an option down the line, which got us thinking, would we start that journey again? Is it worth the stress and potential heartache of losing Visa’s before gaining permanent residency?
These questions are forever there, and they can’t really be answered. But for now, we’ll remain in limbo, forever vagabonds.