NEAR & FAR

Home.

What is home?

Can we have our place somewhere else in this world? And still call it home?

Why it’s seems so tough sometimes?

In the beginning of the year I left Lisbon. It was a rainy & gloomy day. My heart was taut because I didn’t want to leave. Lisbon became a Home for us and after 3 years on the same place you can picture the amount of things to pack and move out. It was a little exhausting and sad. But the deepest hardship was the love-distance that was followed over the next three months. I realized that even, while staying in my hometown, a part of me was missing. Though during that time I tried to embrace the quietness and enjoy the little everything that I knew that I would be apart soon.

It is painful and difficult for me to say goodbye.... leaving a place that I love, the people that I care for; especially Zu. That dog! He is like a brother to me. And knowing that now I will not be able to bring him to spend some time with us just breaks my heart. Because now I am miles away, in the Netherlands, in the middle of new plans, hopes & dreams. Sometimes it is scary. Some days I feel out of the place…

I am just a bit overwhelmed with everything.

I think I left pieces of what is Home to me in the places, people & furry paw friends that are meant for my heart.

Home is mostly a feeling. It’s all about emotions.