What is it about a familar place that just feels right? I was out of town for a few days and after I arrived back in town, with each street that got me closer to home it just felt good. . . more comfortable. . . like it’s supposed to feel.
Each time I go back to Michigan, I drive down Dixie Hwy and Watkins Lake Road and it’s not that I relive memories but I do have a feeling. What is that feeling. Whatever it is it feels good.
Same as when I go back to Lynchburg, VA, where I spent 5 years at Liberty University. Driving up Candlers Mountain Road. Sure I remember some of the crazy things me and my buddies did there but accompanying those memories is a feeling.
I love that feeling. You can’t ever go back and live it again. . .personally, I wouldn’t want to. My life is right where I want it to be. I’m not one to look back. But when you go back “home” wherever that is. . . it’s there.
My buddy Bob went back home last weekend. He spent a day visiting some old locations, some “life markers” during his time in L.A. where he just went and had some conversations with God. Felt like God was calling him back to those places. Each place had a memory. They probably weren’t all pleasant. But I’m sure he had the feeling.
I went to Sunset Strip with Brian where he spent time in his late teen years. Memories accompanied by the feeling.
I haven’t said it well, but you know what I’m talking about. It’s pretty amazing what we hold in our minds, in our senses, it really never leaves. I think I forget a lot. . .but the. . .(say it all together now) feelings. . .they never leave.
Maybe you didn’t say it well, but I don’t think you said it poorly, I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s the feeling I get each time we’re back in Chicago; and same feelings are slowing getting stronger each time I return to Nashville.
Ya wanna see some boohooing? Try taking a trip to Charleston with Mrs. Figurehead and I.
Hard to believe as it might be, I still get “that feeling” when I go to Murfreesboro too. I spent alot of good years there in college.