I have a ton of awful memories here... but for every devastating one, there\'s an amazing one.
It\'s the place I\'ve lived the longest in my life. 4 years as of yesterday.
Everywhere else has been 3 years or less.
I thought I finally had a \"home\", at least until I went to college.
I am angry, because my home isn\'t with my family. It\'s the houses I\'ve lived in, with the memories of people I\'ve met, and memories of nights when I cried myself to sleep, progressing to nights where I would come in at midnight, wearing a dress which would usually make me irate but I wouldn\'t care, because I was 16 and in love, and I\'d sing old 1940s songs and dance and fall asleep on the floor because I was just so elated to be alive.
All of that happened here. In this room. And now I have to leave it, just like literally everything else in my life. Nothing has ever been lasting. No one has stayed more than a year, no house has held us for more than 3, now 4 years.
And no house will, because in a year I will be moving to another state, possibly another country. And I will never take my temporary happiness home, because I will never have a home. They\'ve never worked out for me. Why would they in the future?
For a few sweet, sweet short months, I thought maybe... maybe I can. Maybe someday I will have a home, maybe someday it will last, maybe someday there will be a \"we\", and we\'ll last.
Those were beautiful months.
But those months are past.
Now for the next 15 months..
I know there will be times when I cry myself to sleep.
There will never be moments when I dance around, and play pretend in my head with vivid hopes for the future.
I have never had a lasting home, and I never will.