Mountains Everywhere
By Cruz
@Tierkreisze (1609)
Philippines
July 7, 2020 1:52am CST
When I was a kid, I used to live at a small town surrounded by a mountain range. It was practically mountains and trees from the north, south, east, and the other east, because the west view from my home used to be covered by our house's large walls and roof.
I missed that particular feature of the horizon when we moved to another town just outside the mountain range.
Now, I only see the mountains to the north where my home used to be. Everywhere I look, large buildings crawl to the sky's big blue canvas as green patches of rice fields gobble unused ground area.
Sometimes, I think I'd like to live back to where home used to be. To the thick trees that toughen their mountainous home.
But most of the time, I'm reminded my new home. My friends, relatives, and other people who live in this town I've considered my new home.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
It's like the scenery around you makes you feel like there should be more, doesn't it?
How sad does missing nature make you?
@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
7 Jul 20
Before marriage I live in a village. My home exactly located before small mountain. I really enjoyed that place, but after marriage I come to city, now I missing those a lot.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
That's kinda sad. But did you also got excited the first time you got live in the city with your husband?
@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
I think the trees in my hometown are different, but I'd love any tree and mountain whenever I see it.
@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
I think so. Have you ever felt this before?
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@JudyEv (326127)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jul 20
@Tierkreisze I had a quite emotional attachment to our farm. It was sold after I married and moved away and I avoided going back there for ages. It was sold to a cousin so I could have revisited but I didn't want to. Now it's really just a 'pull' to the country and away from towns, cities, and crowds. Eventually I did go back to the farm and hardly recognised it so I didn't feel the pain I thought I would.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
@JudyEv It's nice to read that you were able to go back without as much pain as you expected. Our house was sold to a family friend who rents it out now, so I usually stay with my grandmother's sister when I go back to visit. I've never revisited our old house though, because I'm not sure if she still remembers me. The last time she saw me was when I was 12!
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
7 Jul 20
I did not grow up in an area that there were mountains. I moved to Canada for graduate school and I could see mountains every day. I love mountains and even though Tokyo where I live is pretty flat, we can see the Chichibu Mountain range and Mt. Fuji when the weather is clear.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
I love Japan! Even though I've never been there yet haha. But more than that, I've read about how Tokyo combines so well with nature. But I never knew you could see Mt. Fuji from there.
I used to live far in the middle of the Cagayan Valley, which the Sierra Madre mountain range envelops like a baby.
@amitkokiladitya (171936)
• Agra, India
7 Jul 20
I can understand how much you must be missing the mountains. It isn't easy to settle down in a city after one had lived close to the mountains
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
Thanks. Being where I am now makes me feel like I'm so far away from nature, as if I have to go somewhere out there, but out there is not where everyone else is.
I wonder, have you felt this before? This tugging feeling that makes you want to be two places at once?
@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
Oh no haha although I wish I did. I used to live in Nueva Vizcaya where the morning breath fogs as much as the morning dew from the trees around Cagayan Valley.
Now, I live in Nueva Ecija where the rice paddies are as wet as me when I'm sweating in the morning. It's really so hot in here that I don't feel like I've gotten used to the heat after living for a decade here.
@Young_boy (1055)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
7 Jul 20
Just like my village. My village is surrounded by hills, there are ricefield too.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
7 Jul 20
Does the morning sun glows red in the early horizon in your village? That happens here in my new hometown where the land is so flat with paddies that you could marvel at the sun in the morning.
But I didn't see that a lot in my old hometown. The mountain ranges used to block its view
