Do birds go back to the nests in which they’re born? Not after
building their own nests, I imagine. But they survive on a different
code than we do, and we had to build planes to help us fly. They are
built for it. Before planes, it was a much more difficult task to move
away. Eventually, it also becomes a difficult task to want to go back
home, because what waits for you there? An escape from the life you now
live? This — here — is the present. Who knows where the future might be?
Who knows what an individual person’s priorities are, and who’s to say
whether they’re right or wrong? It is not a sign of defeat to want to
revisit home, to be a child again, to be cared for by parents and
friends if you’re so lucky to still have them. Nor is it a mark of
insensitivity or ungratefulness if you can’t, or don’t want to go home.
Maybe you’ve rebuilt a nest already, and you’re already home.
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