"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again."
— Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)
This describes, I think, the anxiety I usually feel in the face of change. It's not so much that I'm afraid of what's ahead. In fact, most of the time I'm really excited about it. I just tend to like whatever life phase I'm in enough that I don't want to leave it.
And it's true. Even though Kevin and I are (kind of) moving back to Chicago, it won't be the same as it was when we were there before because we're different people than we were then.
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