Earlier this week I saw someone online refer to having just purchased their “forever home” and I asked myself, “What the fuck is a forever home?” This makes sense if know that I grew up in a military family. I traipsed across the globe and the United States 10 times before coming to New York in my early 20s. In my 13 years here, I’ve moved seven times with a six-week sublet nestled somewhere in between. That math puts me at about 27ish different moves in my lifetime. When the military pays your bills, you don’t have much choice in the matter, so I learned in my early childhood that randomly having to move somewhere new was just how people in our circumstance lived. The concept of a forever home was never one for me to understand, though as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate the control and autonomy that I have in making these decisions for myself.
it always works out
it always works out
it always works out
Earlier this week I saw someone online refer to having just purchased their “forever home” and I asked myself, “What the fuck is a forever home?” This makes sense if know that I grew up in a military family. I traipsed across the globe and the United States 10 times before coming to New York in my early 20s. In my 13 years here, I’ve moved seven times with a six-week sublet nestled somewhere in between. That math puts me at about 27ish different moves in my lifetime. When the military pays your bills, you don’t have much choice in the matter, so I learned in my early childhood that randomly having to move somewhere new was just how people in our circumstance lived. The concept of a forever home was never one for me to understand, though as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate the control and autonomy that I have in making these decisions for myself.