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What do you do, if you are homesick, but don't have a home?
« on: August 10, 2019, 01:14:03 pm »
That's the trick question I ask myself right now, sitting at the Oslo airport, not knowing where to go. :/
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Re: What do you do, if you are homesick, but don't have a home?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2019, 06:53:15 am »
Go somewhere nice and don't make plans to leave?  (Replace somewhere with someones if it is the social aspect.)

Roughly equivalent to 'make somewhere home'.
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Re: What do you do, if you are homesick, but don't have a home?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2019, 03:34:07 pm »
Send non-electronic letters to people you have known, and who remind you of  places that were "home" before.

Remind them of a good time in the past...
Get a couple of good pictures of what is "now" for you, and send them...
Write a two-dozen words with a pen.

Say "hello from %%i!, did you ever think it would turn out like this?".
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Re: What do you do, if you are homesick, but don't have a home?
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2019, 07:22:43 pm »
Also, do not understate weather and geography. When in Denmark, I was remarkably miffed at the fairly constant weather. The landscape was also different. Go somewhere that looks and feels like home.

Even somewhere that has similar traditions or culture. I loved hearing local accents when I got back. It made me feel less like an outsider, more 'home'.

Really, a home is more than a single building or even town. Find what you thematically link with home (mountains, blazing sun, the word "y'all"?) and go for it.
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Re: What do you do, if you are homesick, but don't have a home?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2019, 08:28:48 am »
The irony of this situation is that I've been here, except in Sweden. I was 19 and homeless hitchhiking around Europe with no family or friends that could help me. I'd been living on the streets/half-way houses in London for 3 years prior. I ended up at some small airport sleeping rough inside for several days, too tired to go on with my trip (early spring with no winter clothing and a cheap tent through northern Scandinavia (I know)). I felt hopeless. There's really only one thing to do in moments like that. Just keep fucking going. Do what you have to do to survive. In America in a similar situation a few years later I resorted to buying a bar of chocolate and using it with a rag to polish truck rims for $5 a rim. You do what you have to do, you try to get yourself in a better position than today, whether it's a warmer sleeping spot on the streets or a new resource to help you get off the streets. You survive for tomorrow.
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