Love help: do any of you believe in the statement that ‘you cant go back home again’…and why? - Help.com

Well, I personally don’t believe it. I know that if I wanted to go back home (thinking home where I grew up) I know my family would love me no matter what I did. I know, they may be mad, but they will love me no matter what.

I’ve interperted it the way I see it.

what do u mean ?

yeap! just don’t worry…u will begin to feel better…university is a lot better then school, but the begining is very hard… cuz u just don’t know anyone… and I don’t know if u r living in a different city…I think u r….so It must be even harder, cuz u r alway from home and everyhting else u ever known. And u can go back home, but things wont be the same cuz u wont be at school…. I think that’s all part of living, and growing….. it’s hard, for sure. and what about that friend of yours?? have u seen him there?

Well, I’ve gone home and everything the same, and said, “Screw this.” I’ve one home and found I could not recapture the essence of my youth.

Absolutly you can not go home again. Once a person spends time away from where they grew up even if nothing in the hometown has changed and your loving mother has kept your room preserved in exactly the same condition. You will have changed through gaining experiance in the big bad world and home will never be the same for you.
Once you leave the womb you can not crawl back inside.

Whether its your actual home or just a place from a part of your life that you once loved & enjoyed, I know you can go back, but it won’t be the same as the first time you were there. Each step we take that moves us forward in life to a different place and to different people and to new experiences changes us in many ways. Each decade of life changes our perspectives and priorities.

So to me, yes you can go back, but it will be with a different outlook and feeling. Many times we don’t realize the change until we get back, and then we feel and see its not the same as the first time around.

Whether this makes sense or not, this is how I see.

Take care.

Shag448 said it. I don’t really think that this quite the same as you are using it though. The phrase, as I understand it, refers to the tendency to move away from home and grow in a different direction then you would have had you stayed at home. When you go back, everyone is still listening to the same music or doing the same things on weekends, or working the same dead end jobs, and you have since discovered different things in life that you feel unable to relate to the people that have stayed in same physical location/frame of mind since you last saw them. Regardless of why it is, the phrase refers to growing away from where you came from, as opposed to growing with. It is not impossible though, to grow apart from someone/somewhere, and then months/years later come meet back up with similar outlooks once again.

I think it depends on how you look at “home”. I can always go back to my parents house but I think “home” for me was a certain time not a certain place. I haven’t lived at home in over 10 years, my sisters are all grown, my parents grandparents now. Even though it’s home it doesn’t always feel like it.