No one knows when their moment will arrive. They start to feel trapped, drained, and restless in their current surroundings. This is when it's time to part with your hometown and bid a fond farewell.
When It’s Time to Leave Home:
Some individuals experience this feeling straight out of high school. They feel the need to get far away from their hometown and the life they led in their adolescence. Others do not receive this sensation of restlessness until they are done with college. Some may never feel this way because everyone has different goals and aspirations.
It is time to leave home when the time around you appears to drag on. When you find no satisfaction in your everyday actions. Things that used to bring you joy don’t anymore and nothing makes you more elated than dreaming of a life away from where you are. A feeling of restlessness surrounds you and the only thing that can calm that nagging tingle is to get out. If you can’t leave immediately, you feel trapped.
The need to leave home is not caused by any one individual or thing, it’s just an unconscious feel that won’t stop until the actions and steps are taking to satisfy the urge.
It is is hard to explain to others how you are feeling, and those who have never felt the urge to leave probably won’t understand. There is not really a definitive answer as to why you have to go. There may be legitimate reasons as to your departure, such as jobs opportunities, but the feeling in your gut is what is propelling you forward in the journey out to explore new and distant places.
Recently, as a junior in college, this feeling finally hit me. I was going through the motions of my life, attending a university only 90 miles away from the town where I grew up. I was suddenly struck with a jumbled ball of nerves in my belly and that anxiousness of absolutely needing to leave. There was really no explanation of my sudden desire to leave the place I though I 100 percent loved. I had even planned on going to grad school and living in my university town until the day I died. Why did this feeling come around and twist my plans and twist my dreams into a chaos riddled abyss of confusion? All I knew was that I needed to leave and experience all the world has to offer.
I did not want to feel this way, but for no rhyme or reason I do, and there is nothing that will satisfy me until I leave. I know many other people feel this way, but many don’t think it will happen to them. When it does it is confusing and bizarre.
