You Can’t Go Home Again | Grandma's Ramblings
As we celebrated another holiday, thoughts of “yesterday” were in my heart and mind. But I needed this reminder – enjoy the present. Savor the memories of yesterday, but do not worry about tomorrow. Live for today!
The writer Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel entitled “You Can’t Go Home Again.” The main character in the book, George Webber, realizes “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood …back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing.”
And L.P. Hartley in his book, “The Go-Between” wrote “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
I always took it to mean that things and you change, and that you can never recapture the feelings you had in the past. It will always seem different.
Either that, or your parents have moved without leaving a forwarding address
But on a serious note, I recently saw how true those sentiments are.
This past…
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