Chapter 85
November 5/2022
Dear Deary,
"Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease."
Naguib Mahfouz.
Sometimes it seems to me that I have no home at all, and not one corner of the world can become one.
But sometimes it seems to me that I myself am my own house, because I no longer run from myself. It's so strange when you accept yourself everything becomes calm. Acceptance of oneself gives an incredible and previously unknown special calmness. The main thing to understand is only one thing: you will never be able to run away from yourself, but it is quite possible to love yourself or at least accept yourself by ceasing to run away from everything and yourself.
You may never find a place that you can call home, but you can be home to yourself, and then the place will not be so important, because wherever you go you will have your own comfortable and peaceful home inside you.
