Sometimes I get the feeling of homesickness. Currently I live in Istanbul, where I was born. So it means that Istanbul is my home! However, sometimes I feel like my home is far far away where I lived with my husband for a year - Redondo Beach! When I was living in LA, I got homesick time to time. Now I am at home so I shouldn't feel homesick, shouldn't I? I am so confused. I am in love with Istanbul, with all its history, architecture, people, etc but I can't stop thinking about the beauty of Pacific ocean, nature, sunshine and happy faces that I met everyday when I was in Redondo Beach. Can't I have it both? Where is my real home? Why do I always feel like some part of me belongs to somewhere else? Is it the consequence of being a world citizen? I am just curious...
Homesick
September 14, 2007Author: Seda time: 13:00
Tags: Istanbul, Redondo Beach
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Well, it's difficult to have it ALL, isn't it? Already living in Turkey you have lot!!
Hi Seda!
Thanks for your comment on my blog.
I just survived the Greek fires. I was in the Islands (Kos, Crete and Mykonos) where there were no fires; only the island of Evia was somehow affected.
I’m so glad to see you back posting and commenting. Of course, having Istanbul and California at the same time is quite difficult (Cannot eat the cake and have it...), but still there is the chance to travel sometime...
As I’m late, my posts at Blogtrotter are still in Bali 2005. Hope you enjoy it, anyhow!
Have a nice weekend!
Hi, hadn't seen you for a long time (nor you me). But it was nice to see you again.
As to your post I guess that you can never have it all.
You raise an interesting question. Is your home where you were born and reared or where you are currently living. I use the phrase "going home" when I visit my childhood area, but now where I have lived for years and reared my children, I think is truly "home." I have also lived in México
Did't finish my remarks! Altho I live in México for part of the year, I don't consider that my home because it's temporary but I consider it a privilege to live there during the winter months. So, the previous comments and this one suggest my definition of "home."
Hi. You are lucky to have not one, but TWO places on Earth where you feel at at home!
I have always heard that home is where the heart is, so where is your heart? But sure know what you mean ... I was born and so far live here but I always wonder that i need to live away from here. BOOO strange feelings we have!!
Hey! Thanks for your comments. I guess my heart is both in Istanbul and in LA. That's the problem. I know I didn't live in LA for a long time but I never felt like it is a temporary place for me. It always made me feel like home. I didn't have any memory or friend there but I made my memories and friends by myself. But Istanbul is really my home with all these memories and friends and family. I guess Istanbul is like my family, which I adore and love very much, which I didn't choose but to born into; whereas LA is like my friends that I made it mine by choice and love also very much. You cannot choose between your friends and family, can you?. This is something like it.
I understand how you feel, Seda - I was born in Europe but live in the States - always missing something, or someone...
(PS I lived in Laguna Beach for a couple of years, but don't really miss it ;-))
maybe you can live in Istanbul for 6 months and LA for 6 months. :)
That will be perfect!
in the heart of the man she is set for many loves there, in yours there is the love for your city and the "saudade" for a place where happy have been. Not only seem me natural, but also very beautiful....
Ah, I know that feeling. I think it sort of sneaks up on you when you've lived in more than one place that you have liked. I live in one place, my native home is another, and I feel at home in a third place.. Where are those teleports when you need them?!?
we are living in Brussels and I feel homesick even I was IN Istanbul.
I think I am really from Turkiye. :)
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