Comments on: Music not a cure for homesickness

By: eek

eek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:41:00 +0000

I grew up and lived my first 28 years on the Eastern US Coast, never more than a 45-minute drive from the Atlantic Ocean. Now I live in the midwest. I know everyone I say this too looks at me weird, but I regularly have just a bit of panic or vertigo or something that there isn’t an ocean just a short car ride East of me…

I miss family and friends and places/things unique to both the East Coast places most familiar to me, and in ways that can feel almost too much for fleeting moments, but the overwhelming weirdness of it, even after living here for 4 years, is the sort of vertigo of missing my ocean.

No suggested cures – just an empathetic nod of understanding.

I am where I need to be, and not sure I will ever be an East Coaster again, but the moments of missing that time or place can be powerful. When those moments hit you, hold on, breathe, and ride them out…

Emily

By: caitlin

caitlin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:43:32 +0000

I live in Seattle now, but grew up in Upstate, NY nearish to Saratoga. Recently, I watched a fascinating PBS program on the stunning Adirondack Mountains. I found myself homesick and practically in tears. I also oddly enough really miss the way NYC smells. I hope that you’re able to spend loads of time in Sydney soon.

By: sir tessa

sir tessa — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:48:22 +0000

australia misses you too.

By: Cheryl Rainfield

Cheryl Rainfield — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:03:17 +0000

Homesickness can be painful. I don’t know a cure for it–and sometimes it helps to feel–but I also know that sometimes distraction can help alleviate pain, at least for a while. What about getting lost in a great book? Watching a movie you love? Doing something creative–doodling, drawing, dancing…. Or just getting a hug?

By: hillary!

hillary! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:42:26 +0000

After seven years I still miss Eugene, Oregon. I’ve never even been back for a small visit. SEVEN YEARS! This prolly doesn’t help.

By: Lizabelle

Lizabelle — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:59 +0000

If it’s any help (although I don’t suppose it is, sorry), I am in your beautiful, amazing city of Sydney, and am homesick for my home in the UK.

Homesickness just IS, sadly.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:26:55 +0000

In Canada, I only listen to Kiwi music if I want to feel very sorry for myself indeed. And vice versa. It is only good for dejected wallowing.

Under no circumstances point your browser anywhere near the word Youtube in conjunction with the words Paul and Kelly. It may just be too too much.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:08:34 +0000

4.7 times? 0.7? You were listing to Sherbet weren’t you

By: emmaco

emmaco — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:52:25 +0000

Have you tried watching clips from Australian programs so you can miss the accents? about as effective as the music listening. Next on the list for me: texting my sisters every hour to see how they’re enjoying their road trip down the Queensland coast together.

By: becky

becky — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:45:16 +0000

I have to ask. tee hee. Do you listen to Darren Hayes?

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:16:52 +0000

I cannot say. If I told you all my Aussie friends would mock me for the rest of my life.

By: David Moles

David Moles — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:50:52 +0000

but sometimes it’s worse in a good way? maybe?

(so what oz music do real aussies listen to?)