I want to "return home", but nowhere feels like home. My childhood home is still there and I can go back whenever I want, but not even that feels like home. Does anyone else experience this?

>>81948156 (OP)
You can never go home again. This has happened to everyone ever.

>>81948156 (OP)
Yeah, I sometimes say it out of the blue even when I am technically in my home.

>>81948162
>>81948171
But do you also feel an indifference to your location? I've been all across the US but I feel the same wherever I am. Like sure, I can notice subtle differences, but nothing really makes me think "wow this is so different from where I grew up". It's like I just exist in places without really living in them. I don't really miss anywhere or grow attached to places anymore.

>>81948222
Yes that's how everyone feels at one time or another, or even all the time. "You can never go home again" is a saying for a reason, the past is always off limits to travel and the future is a foreign land. You just feel it stronger than most people.

>>81948222
Not really, I do notice my homeregion is closer to my heart than anywhere else but I still don't feel at ease or in place

Driving in your car, oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their home
And I'm welcome no more

>>81948156 (OP)
Home isn't a house, it's the people in it.

>>81948156 (OP)
It's basically just another way of saying "I hate my life I want to go somewhere that feels better and more comforting." Saying "home" is just shorthand for somewhere else less miserable and unnerving. My sister used to say "I want to go home!" while crying to my toxic mother all the time because she didn't know how else to express her feelings. She basically meant she hates my npd parents behavior/personality and hates having to live with them and deal with them but children aren't self-aware and socially aware enough to articulate that clearly. I used to joke saying "I miss my home planet" being an outcast loner insinuating I'm an alien that doesn't belong here.

>>81948156 (OP)
Yeah there's a saying that only children have a "home"

>>81948156 (OP)
There's a reason so many songs center around the idea of finding somewhere we belong or returning home or finding your tribe kinda themes. It's a typical human feeling of not belonging anywhere or with among any people. Pretty popular sentiment in this age where most people have zero community and their town/family has no sense of community either.
https://youtu.be/zsCD5XCu6CM?si=GAjz0Mfa_EEZMSFn

>>81948156 (OP)
>Does anyone else experience this?
Yes. Almost like this planet isn't even home

>>81948787
>Almost like this planet isn't even home
What do you mean?

>>81948669
What if all you have is the house and no one else in it?

>>81950662
You create OP's thread.

I just want the world to be the way it was between the years of 1997, and 2006.

>>81948156 (OP)
The issue is that you do not have a home.
>childhood home
Some place you have little to no good memories of nor connection to. You left when you could. Probably home life wasn't great or maybe you were bullied during your school years - just guessing based on where you're posting.
>current "home"
Some studio apartment in some medium-shitty neighborhood. You don't get shot on the street and your neighbors are only a little annoying, and it's cheap. You'll probably move out in 3 years. Somebody else was living there 3 years before you. It is not yours.
>places you do like
Public spaces. Maybe you have a favorite coffee shop or some park you like. These places are as close as you get to "home" in an emotional sense but simultaneously it is crisply obvious that is not your actual home in any real way.

>>81950824
No, 3500-2500 BCE is better.

>>81948156 (OP)
I'm not really sure what it's like to feel like anywhere was home. Moved around a lot as a kid and was a drifter adult until recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvYhlLkFsQ&list=RD2HvYhlLkFsQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUKdG9vbCB0cmlhZKAHAQ%3D%3D