i can’t wait to be home

so close 🏠️

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onto today’s topic: i can’t wait to be home 🏠️ 

i’m sitting at my gate in rdu as i type this and i’m itching in excitement to go home.

i have gone equally long stretches without seeing my family and being home before (4 months this time), but i’ve never craved the feeling of driving my siblings to school, waking up and hugging my parents, or late-night sleepover with my hometown best friends like this before. ❤️‍🩹 

those times away from home previously always felt temporary, because i knew i’d be coming back home at the end. my homesickness now can be credited to finally realizing that these periods away from home are not so temporary anymore, but rather my new reality. i know toronto is always home, but it’s a bittersweet transition in life as i, brick by brick, build another home in chapel hill.

my lens of reality has shifted a little and going home feels like an escape to childhood, an oasis where i can roll around in the snow of my backyard, eat my mom’s paratha every tuesday and thursday morning, and listen eagerly as my sister bursts into my room to tell me the latest drama. 🤞 

my brother, 8 years old (almost 9!), will undoubtedly look older in the months i wasn’t able to watch him grow before my eyes, and i’ll feel something amiss the same way my parents have while watching my siblings and i traverse through life.

but, that’s just what growing up is, and again, distance makes the heart grow fonder. 

i’ll be 30 minutes away from home when you read this. i’m so excited. 😁 

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