Blythe Hawkins @blythebrenna.art
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Leave Fast or Stay Forever
I find myself in constant back and forth between the excitement of a new start and the comfort of staying home, bring up the question of if I don’t leave now, will I ever?
Belonging in regards to Suffolk, home, is a difficult one because I know many of us may have felt a bit stuck growing up there. I was certainly feeling this after moving home during covid and then staying for three years. But now that I’m gone I feel homesick all the time, I miss Suffolk, and I feel I belong there in the end, my path will most likely lead there in the grand scheme of things, which I never would have thought when I was ‘stuck’ there. It feels good to miss it,
I think leaving a place and missing it in such a fundamental way is a true signifier of belonging. I feel a different kind of comfort when I am back, a certainty, which could change but for now I am enjoying this strong attachment and feeling of belonging there when I am unable to be there.
