Fri, 18 May 2012
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Meagan experiences that feeling of in-between-ness that comes from moving home, and wonders how many moves will come before she is settled.I sit here tonight waiting for my boyfriend to get ready upstairs. I wait for him to come downstairs and tell me he is ready to pick up his friend from the bus station. This was our first home together. And tonight is our last night with this home as our own.
His friend will be moving in for three weeks and then we will move on. We will move to another apartment to call our second home. We had another place that we lived. It was in Los Angeles, but that was mine before it was his, so therefore cannot be called “our” first home.
I can’t help but wonder how many times I will have this feeling of leaving a place. Our particular situation (Englishman, American woman) won’t allow us much time to get settled anywhere…at least not for many years.
So as I sit here in the last hour of this being truly “our” home, I read the book Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert about her memoir on a sceptic making peace with marriage. And I look forward to something to start happening for us again – another stage in our journey. Not this in-between place we are in. I’d rather be moving and travelling constantly OR be settled. I don’t know how much I like this in-between place that is like the 13th floor…almost feeling like it doesn’t exist.
Then again, if I were Haitian, imagine how I would feel. This is nothing compared to that. For that, I am grateful.
Follow Meagan on The Lady Who Lunches: her 5,370 mile move from loud Los Angeles to elegant England, the adjustments from being a somewhat aspiring actress to an overly-excited novelist, the cultural shocks a very American woman faces living in this European nation, the reluctant but fantastic start-up of a social group for women in a foreign country, and learning how to live with the English gent she fell in love with. Phew!
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