A new place called home

Home is where the heart's at.

I've heard this statement casually tossed around so many times but until now I never realized how true it is. You can't just build a house and call it home. A home is a place where you feel safe and loved because that's where your friends and family is at. Humans are naturally social animals, we need social interaction to survive in this world and home provides us with a place for that. Home is where your social bubble is and the best part is your home is constantly expanding. Sure I call my place in Arizona home, but I have more homes than just that. When I'm visiting family in India, that is also my home and the newest collections to my homes is Cleveland (well not all of Cleveland, mostly just Case). At Case I have people that I love with all of my heart and people that I can talk to with just about anything. At Case I felt like I was part of something bigger. Life didn't revolve just around me (well at least not all the time) but it was an intricate balance of different friend circles. It was odd the way things worked you'd be a fringe person to one circle but the core of another yet some people at the core of one friend circle would be fringe friends of another core person's other circle. Basically it was an overlap of networks that would get confusing really fast if you thought about it for longer than necessary.

Ignore the words at the bottom I was to lazy to crop the image but yeah I guess exploring possibilities is something Case kids are good at (whatever that means). Also I was really tempted to crop out the big silver ugly but it's a part of Case so whateves I guess. Also it's really hard to find a good picture of campus. 
Basically what I'm saying is this past year I found a new home. A place that has unpredictable weather and randomness of architecture, but is also wonderful in that it is full of people who love me, interesting places, and an opportunity at every doorstep. Until now I hadn't realized how important being at Case was for me. It was more than an opportunity to make friends, I had the chance to make connections with people I otherwise would have never imagined talking to. I made friends everywhere. Sure some were just in namesake but others go much deeper than that.

I just wanted to mention how I really love this picture because yeah the freshmen dorms aren't the prettiest thing in the world but in this photo life at Case seems so relaxed (and cold, but relaxed) and I just don't know how to explain how it makes me feel in words but it's a nice feeling. Also there's a couple in the photo so bonus points for romance? (cause you know romantic pictures always make you feel so warm and mushy inside because romance is just an alien from space that is slowly vaporizing your brain cause it can)

If you're reading this, regardless of whether you are from Case or from Arizona I want to thank you for being such a great friend to me and I also want to yell at you because it's probably you're fault I'm feeling homesick. Seriously though stop being such an awesome person so I can momentarily stop thinking about home.