Home Sweet Home

There is always this unexplainable feeling that comes from deep inside oneself after they left home a long while.

I left home more than a year now and that freedom one have away from home is a great price to pay. At home, things are ready made for you. But, away from home, you will have to make things yourself if you must succeed in a newly founded life you have. The early morning waking not because mum shouted from the bathroom that wake up, its morning! But because waking up in your new lifestyle means you have to do something to survive. Mum is no where close to save you when you go hungry and you will have to adjust your meal plan when you go low on food stuff. Adjusting meal plan can be a difficult one to manage especially when ones income is delayed or your budget was over spent before reaching its determined end.

It is so with every human. At some point home was the only sweet thing they had and would return from anywhere to home. Be it from school or just taking holiday to an anty's or uncle's place. But, growing up, reality starts to set in and the need for our own place to become our own man or woman and not mummy's boy, hits us.

I think it is nature because one whom for a long time grew up in their parents house only to wake up one morning to tell them. Hey dad, mum I'm leaving. It is a hard one to tell when the question comes "to where?" Although situations like this one, it is much easier dealing with a father than mums. You notice the sudden change on mum's face on hearing you will be leaving home. Her first question would be "son, how would you cope?" Who would take Care of you?" And it is really hard watching your mum cry that you're leaving.

In some situations mum would ask you not to go. They can't bear seeing their adult baby leave.For this, some would leave without even telling mum especially and until they arrive at their destination before putting a call through to say "holla moma, so sorry I didn't tell you when I was leaving, I'm in a new town in another city to make a life for myself mum. You're getting old and I need to e financially independent since I'm capable to take care of you." it would hurt mum though, but she will just have to deal with the fact that her baby is gone not forever but for a better future.

The life in the new place is never easy as anticipated. And if the aim of going there was to go picking free lunch and monies then it won't be long before we start finding the route back home to mummy. But, for the determined it would be a mountain climb trying to adapt to the newly founded situation. Having a well thought out plan before leaving home is best as it would help one adapt quicker and begin enjoying the eldorados in the new habitat. What trumps everything to come with into the new place is discipline. With discipline we would navigate our ways through troubles and make judicious use of the scarce resources we have.

For those without discipline, then their new life is another avenue to self destruction. They destroy themselves first by having bad friends. Those bad friends would cause them to do so many bad things and before one realizes they would have found themselves deep under with heep of problems here and there. For such people, their move into these new places have no benefits for them and it would be best if they just stick to their moma's home where they can be effectively watched.

Been away from home over a long time in to the wilderness. Where you hustle, feed, cloth and have to pay rents and bills yet looking back to home to offer financial support is just enough trouble to get one occupied and isolated from bad influences and friends. And coming back home after all that in a long while soothens the heart. The breath of home sucks through the throat and its breeze glazes your face with a smile that yes its home coming. On reaching home mum burst through the door to welcome you in a warm hug. After been serve a meal then you would realized you missed so much. No food beats that from mum's kitchen and you will realize that indeed home is sweet.

Home sweet home...

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