"Homesick" in German is Heimweh: home-pain or home-hurt, like you're hurting to be back home again.
A good word, but my absolute favorite in the whole language is its opposite, Fernweh. Far-pain.
I think a lot of you know what it is to hurt with wanting to be somewhere faraway.
Yes. I know how that feels. I feel it right now. *HUGSHUGSHUGS* since I can't be there to give you a real one.
ReplyDeleteEdge - Ohh I'm not feeling that right now, actually. But *HUGSHUGSHUGSback* since hugs are always good.
ReplyDeleteWish I could give you both *HUGSHUGSHUGS*.
ReplyDeleteAnd you know us way too well. Of course we know that feeling.
Haha, yes, I know that feeling... it's awful. BUT what can you do?
ReplyDeleteBambola - Get on a plane? [here I am grinning hugely]
ReplyDeleteI, sometimes, get these urges to just drive and keep going or take every left turn or right but I never actually do it...it's just a thought.
ReplyDeleteMaybe one day i will drive off...
pinkapplecore - Indeed? The prospect sounds delicious...
ReplyDeleteMost places in my neighborhood, if I took every left turn or every right turn, I would just be driving in an endless rectangle. Ha.
So know that feeling...
ReplyDeleteSerious wanderlust x
Yes, wanderlust is a horrible feeling. I like a recent tweet of John Mayer (god, did I really just reference from twitter?). He said that the moment when you're homesick when travelling, that's when things start to get really interesting.
ReplyDeleteFernweh, what a wonderful word. Those Germans have the best way of describing things. Well, them and the Brazilians.
ReplyDeletexo,
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