So you want me to move to ****. You say its my hometown? You don't say.

Well lets see, I lived in that town for a grand total of 5 maybe 6 years. Last time I remember of living in **** was 39 years ago. Family moved away to **** then I got so sick of being moved around so much, I dropped out of high school in my junior year to go to an Ivy league school. Didn't even finish my junior year of high school (two separate high school in year and half and third looming on the horizon). And you want me to call **** as my hometown? Well I'll be.

So you did move back to **** where I spend 5/6 years. And you've lived there ever since. **** maybe its your home town in a way; but, for moi? not so much. I didn't like that town anyway. It's the desert. I don't like 100+ heat month at a time. I don't like having to use an oven mitt to open a car door in the summer... And I surely hated getting my arse burnt on car seat. You need to put a white terry cloth towel on the seat.

I don't have a home town. I don't know a thing about homecoming. i don't know what its like to have or had long term friends growing up. What is that like? But I can tell you what its like having attended 5 elementary school as a starter...

I do love you very much but I can't just drop my farm, quit everything to move to where you live so that its like the old days when it was still familia. Not happening. Besides, I've known too many women friends who did just that to take care of their aging parents. And when the aging parents died, my friends I knew became destitute. I'm not going to make that mistake.

so why the venting? Some of you at some point in time maybe requested by their aging parents to drop everything, stop your life, uproot yourselves to go take care of your aging parents. DON'T!! Have them move closer to you. Yes there will be lot of guilt trips heaped upon you for not moving to where they live. Don't cave in and ruin your life. If they say they don't want to move to where you live. Well, it goes both ways. You don't want to move either or you CAN'T.

Okay so I've aired my dirty laundry... but I hope you don't find yourself in similar predicament. Have your aging parents move to where you live or in a town close to you. They may not like it and resist. But its the only real solution.