Rising Star Adventure

JAN 5--On the Road Or Safe at Home?

For the January 5, 2017 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" , the prompt is "Are you on the road, or are you safely at home? Think about it..."

I'll be honest. I don't quite get it. I'm going to assume this is a metaphorical question. Do I go out and put myself out there and go places and do things or am I a homebody?

Well, deep down, I think I'm "on the road" since that's how I've been most of my life. I've lived on 5 continents and have been to more than 40 countries. I used to LOVE travelling. One of the things I loved most about the Army was that I was never anywhere more than 2 years, 3 years tops. I thought that was great because after 2 yrs, I've seen and done everything in the area, so I'm ready to move on.

However, after Iraq, everything changed. When I first came back, I wouldn't leave post for months. I didn't even go adventuring out into the rest of post. I went to church, went to the commissary or PX as needed and was otherwise at home (minus work, of course, but that's a gimme). Even now, 5 1/2 yrs later, my brother has invited me to spend 8 days with him and his family and I think that's a long time. It's not that I don't love them, but I've become such a homebody now. I used to not be able to understand that and it annoyed me when I had friends like that, but now, I AM like that. In some ways it annoys me, but in others, I don't want to change it because it's where I feel safest. But little by little, I am coming back to my old self.

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