Home.

"And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born, then it's time to go and define your destination, there's so many different places to call home."


I think the reason I love this song so much, besides the fact that I completely adore this band, is because I can apply it to myself and how I've almost always felt. I'm sure a lot of people would agree that they've felt this way before too, I think most people have felt like they don't belong in their hometown at some point or other.


Apart from the 'city' part of these lyrics, it is exactly how I feel about my home and how I've felt for a long time. I live in a small town in Nottinghamshire that has never been particularly exciting, the only up side to it is the fact that it is only 30 minutes away from Nottingham, is surrounded by beautiful parks and forests, contains my loved ones and proves to be pretty good at giving you peace and quiet. As much as I love cities, I'm glad I wasn't brought up in one but I'm also glad I could easily get to Nottingham whenever I wanted to. I had the best of both worlds I guess, living in a  quieter place but having a city close by. I have some extraordinary friends from living there, ones that I could not function without. My friends are like brother and sisters to me, they have looked after me for years and continue to do so when we're all miles apart. I talk to them all near enough everyday and eventhough I don't have as many friends as someone who came from a city, went to a bigger school/sixth form, I'd always much rather have fewer real friends than dozens of distant friends. Dan is a good example, he has so many friends from school but he rarely sees them, he rarely calls them, he rarely texts them but he does have a few clear favourites. This is not my way of saying he doesn't have as many real friends as me, he has his best friends and they are lovely people but he's just not as close to them as I am to mine. However, he is already close to two of my best friends and he's well on his way to being close to the others. I love how much they adore him and how much he enjoys spending time with them. Unfortunately I've not had the pleasure of spending a lot of time his friends, apart from Julian who is one of the nicest people I've ever met. I have however, had the pleasure of spending quite a huge amount of time with his family, I think I met the majority of his family when we went mountain climbing for his mum's 50th. This weekend he will be meeting my family properly, he's only met my brother briefly before.


Oh and as always I'm completely going off on a tangent, so I'll stop now. The only reason I decided to talk about this song is because Dan will be experiencing my small hometown this sunday for a week. I'm nervous because it isn't very exciting and I've never taken much of a liking to it either. Luckily I can take him to Nottingham and the surrounding areas, which are much nicer. I love Nottinghamshire, it has so many lovely places within it but my town just isn't one of them. I don't plan to live there for much longer, if I can help it. Most of my friends felt the same, now they've moved on and found another places to call home. I'm next it seems, it's now my turn to figure out where I want to settle for now.


You shouldn't forget where you came from, no matter how wonderful your new home is or how happy you are there, you still became the person you are today partly because of the surroundings you were brought up in. As much as I hate where I'm from, I love the person it made me and the people it gave me. The rhyme wasn't intentional : )