Home Advantage
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
Raymond Lindquist”
Having been back home in the country for sometime now I started to observe or should I say notice the home advantage. Was with who I would like to call my uncles but are more like my friends now.. in the hood they are known as ‘marasta’ in the ‘kasi’. I have stayed in Asia for over 5 years now since I was in my early 20’s. Meaning I have developed most of my adult character outside my family. This has in turn made me a different person from the one I would be should I have grown with my family.
Home sometimes is does not refer to the physical structure itself but where the heart is. It refers to the people moistly your own blood and the surrounding you have grown around. These are all familiar territories and faces which I find enough to keep me distracted from all my worries if they are any. At that same time I noticed something has to bother me enough to act on it. However here at home my heart is all settled at home and I seem to worry less about all my responsibilities. I do think about the consequences of not meeting certain obligations while remembering that am at home and I have a place and someone to fall back on. Back to my boys..Just a thought, everybody is home which is good because I do miss the comfort myself. At that same time I came back to think about how lenient they were letting themselves be on their inner characters. I am not saying that they are not hard workers. They are my blood. Am just saying that being at home destroys the independent character inside of them that so wants to fly to new horizons. This ends up in people being less hard working and losing touch with their ambition to grow. Just as birds that have grown do not know that they can fly. They just fly out without fear. Which some would like to call the leap of faith. We are too comfortable enough to not want to think outside our realities and take the leap of faith.
Home being home this is where I have to drop the pen. It’s been a while.
