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Finding happiness where you hang your hat

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As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

Are you happy living where you live?

Home is where you hang your hat

  • Daniel LaRusso

If you had asked me this question through the majority of my life, I would’ve said no. The truth is, I hated growing up in the suburbs of metro of Detroit. I just don’t like the people here. If everybody acts like they’re so much better than they really are. The kids would call it “bougie“ I guess.

Whatever you call it, the arrogance of the locals he was feeling like I was some kind of outsider. As long as I can remember, I just wanted to get out of town.

The craziest thing happened after spending almost 15 years outside of this region: I move back. It all started since the covid lockdown. Thomas Wolfe was both right and wrong when he said “you can’t go home again”. The truth is. Home is familiarity. I’m living today in the same town that I grew up in. And as cliché as the sounds, it’s very different, and in some ways it’s still the same.

The truth is, I’m the one who’s changed. The people around here are l as annoying as they’ve ever been. But I think I’ve become more tolerant to it. I think we’re good challenges to find your place. Find your niche. Find your people and get into your routine. If you’re not able to go out and preventively, find your routine, your people or your place, they have a way of finding you.

Of course, it’s a lot different now I’m being in my 50s. It’s not like I hang out with friends every day or talk to people every day. Part of that I think it’s because of my age. Part of that I also think is because of the way the world is today. Social media has a much more disconnected from each other than ever before – whilst simultaneously giving us the illusion that we’re more connected than ever.

But the fact of the matter is, I have found my place. I have my work. I have my family obligations. I do occasionally socialize with friends, I am members of the opposite sex. One day, without even trying, I realize that I had “found my place”. What I like to be more social and have more friends? Of course I agree. But I’m relatively content where and when I’m at right now in my life

I wish there was some magical formula to making it happen, or even some magical elixir. But the truth is, it just happens on its own most of the time. 

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