Originally Posted by vikingsail

Thanks for this post. Was interesting to read your back and forth and your insights are very valuable.

Originally Posted by Zen10

In Australia the phenomenon is called "ping pong poms" going back and forth between the countries looking for.... contentment?

Originally Posted by Irish Guinness

Will we ever find it I wonder

Originally Posted by Zen10

I don't think so. In my case it's a kind of wanderlust really, always thinking what I want is just over the horizon. I'm getting a little older now and starting to realise that contentment is best found with family and good friends, wherever they may be!

Originally Posted by Zen10

I don't think so. In my case it's a kind of wanderlust really, always thinking what I want is just over the horizon. I'm getting a little older now and starting to realise that contentment is best found with family and good friends, wherever they may be!

Originally Posted by Irish Guinness

You are so right,what I find sad, is the folk that go home and then find family does not have alot of time for them,it must be just awful.I guess they at home have got on with their own lives while we have all been gone.

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

It is sad...especially for those that go home PRIMARILY because they think it will be a joyous reunion with family and friends, only to find the opposite. It's hard to say to yourself... 'okay, I'm going home, but if my friends and family are too busy for me, or just don't want to know - then I'll still be okay' We like to think that getting back and seeing people will be almost like we've never been away, when the reality is much different. For some, but not all !

Originally Posted by windsong

In the end, we should be going home for "ourselves". Family and friends are an added bonus

Originally Posted by gailc

Originally Posted by WhoFan63

Exactly! We don't realise things until we get older and then we have the thoughts ' I wish I had done such and such when I was younger'.
I think all of us wish those things, but luckily we get to that stage in our lives when we realise that we are the masters of our own destiny so to speak and that its never too late !!!

There are a lot of wonderful people here on BE, and often we can vent and rant more here than we could talking about things to our own family because everyone here understands how you feel. I love my BE family!

Originally Posted by gailc

Originally Posted by Irish Guinness

You are so right gailc !! I think we all know,we love family but there comes a time when we have to put ourselves first,as they say, life is for living no matter how old we are