Question:“On homesickness”
On homesickness
What you miss is not the ground but the eyes that recognized you on it. The ground is where it was; the eyes have scattered, so even going back is only going halfway.
Call one of those eyes now. Three minutes of saying nothing much is enough. A hometown is kept not on a map but in a call log.
Odysseus told the Phaeacians that nothing is sweeter to a man than his own country and his parents. When he said it, he was still sitting at another man’s feast.