I'm from Black Hole, How about you?

Are you getting sucked in?

You ever go on vacation and towards the end of the trip, you almost want to go back "home". Ever move away only to come home at the first chance you get? Oh yeah! Whether it’s a big city with plenty of opportunity and great friends or a small tired town with no chance to do something extraordinary, where you’re deadbeat alchoholic stoner friends like to drag you down, we can’t help but say " Home Sweet Home".

Why is it that the places we come from have a stronger gravitational pull than the planet we live on. At "home", you can jump and immediatly fall straight down; Go to Los Angeles and jump up and you fall down but drift slightly eastward.

Whether it’s Betty Sue, the girl you’ve liked since the 8th grade or the comfort of you’re parents being in throwing distance, their is always a certain comfort level that comes with "home". But what happens when that girl you’ve wanted to be with for what seems like your whole life, has a kid and/or is married? What happens when the house you grew up in is tainted by the loss of a parent to tragedy or family troubles have arose, is it no longer feeling like your "home"?

What keeps us here? Compromise, Failure, Fear, Jaded? Let’s write ’em on paper and we’ll all pick the feelings out of a hat. We can put Compromise in there 10 times, as opposed to the others only once. Values mean nothing when you compromise. Love means nothing when you compromise. Happiness means nothing... when you compromise. Does anything personal to me really matter if it’s altered for the sake of convenience? Am I impeding the growth in my Career or settling on my Love Life for the feeling of being "Home"? These are questions that we ask ourselves every day.

However, sometimes homelife is great and you’re the guy that put a ring on Betty Sue’s finger and you are the perfect ending to the story. But if you’re on the other side of the rainbow and everything is not "happily ever after" It is good to know that there are other places and other people....

So...Dorothy? (Yeah, I’m calling you that character played by Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz!) the next time you find yourself in Emerald City with those ruby slippers, will you click your heels?