Vacations are my favorite. I've always adored venturing somewhere far away, submerging myself in the city, and just being one with my surroundings, because I hate feeling like a tourist. As a result of my love for vacations, I've never had a problem with being away from home. In fact, I loved it. I loved becoming a part of something, something I hadn't been raised in and around.

I feel the same when it comes to moving away to college.

There are some kids that get really, really homesick when they move away to college. The thought of moving away from the only thing you've known for approximately 18 years horrifies them, makes them lonely, or even causes them to drop out.

I've never had that.

I love my parents very dearly. It has nothing to do with me being "distant" from them. No, it has to do with being raised in a small town, if I had to guess. There was nothing to do. Everyone I went to school with I'd practically gone to school with since kindergarten. The fanciest restaurant we had was an Applebee's. It was dull, it was stale, it was boring.

College was something I dreamed of. If I had it my way, I'd have gone out of state. I wanted out, and I wanted far away. I wanted to become someone new. To me, college was my shot. I could pursue the career I wanted, I could be around new people, I could do anything I wanted to when I wanted to.

And I was right. I'm currently pursuing the major I love, I've met incredible people, and I don't let anything, except maybe classes (that's a hard maybe), stop me from doing what I want or what I enjoy.

I don't get homesick, as I expected. I go home when I can, but I don't cry at the fact that I haven't in a month or so. I'm glad, honestly, that I'm not so emotional about it all because it makes hellos happier and goodbyes easier. It makes the time I spend with my dog more precious.

There's nothing wrong with being a homebody. There's nothing wrong with absolutely loving where you live, or being home with your family. It's just never been who I am, and that's okay too. It's nothing personal (Hear that, Mom and Dad? I know you're reading this), I just think the world is too great and too beautiful to be left unappreciated, and if that means I have to be away from home in order to experience it in all its glory, then that's perfectly fine by me.