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Where Do I Live?
Where we live says something about us. When we ask this question it gives us insight into the person that is answering.
At a writer retreat I went to this year I was asked several times “Where I Lived?” I have lived in so many different places over the last couple of years I always hesitate before answering.
Why the hesitation?
I do not feel the town I am currently living in reflects who I am — which in many respects is silly. We chose to move here based on county affiliation and closeness to my work. I am in a temporary place and I know it. It is like we are stationed in this house and waiting for the next deployment and the emotions around this idea are complicated for me. So when I answered the question when asked by the wonderful people I was meeting, it sounded wrong when I said the name of the town where I rent a house where I sleep.
No one was judging one way or another but I felt like I needed to explain something that I could not quite place. I wondered if I sounded inauthentic when I spoke about it. I felt the need to share the town I worked in too even though it wasn’t asked as added information.
