Home Sweet Home

I've lived in this house and neighborhood for almost 12 years and just this past week we've started working on moving out of it... I have sentimental ties to this place and house and I don't want to move because of them. In a way, my family really needs this right now, we need to move on and start over, but I hate the fact that the only reason we're moving is because of what happened last summer...I wish it was for another reason. Either way, it's depressing for me to be moving away from my home and at the same time I'm almost excited, however, only for the material reasons. In the new house I will have my own room, my own space, for the first time in my life, I'll have actual privacy and thinking about that is ecstacy.

 

Starting over, no matter the reason, is always hard; uprooting yourself and then planting somewhere else. While I think that my family needs this, I also get this feeling like moving will some how separate us as a family...everyone having to share rooms etc kind of forces us to be together and over the years we've somehow learned how to get along and enjoy each other's company...I guess what I'm trying to say is that  moving into a bigger house in a better neighborhood, "advancing in the economical chain" is going to tear us apart as a family. But who knows, it could work out for the best, this is just my fear talking, change scares me.