Moving

For some people, moving into a brand new house would be a dream, but for others it is dreadful. There is a huge difference between wanting to move and having to move, and the people from the outside can't see that. Due to the Midwest flood of 2008, 4 thousand homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were ruined, leaving over 9 thousand people homeless. Over half of those people were not able to move back into their home because of the damage. Most of those people had to relocate, some were happy because they didn't want this to happen to them again, but others dreaded the idea of having to move away from the home that they had lived in their whole life, or the home that they built with their own two hands. People from the "outside", meaning that you were not affected, and those people were sympathetic, but had no idea what you were going through. everybody that I talked to told me to be happy because I was getting a brand new house and I didn't have to worry about keeping up the maintenance of the old one, non of them thought it was that big of a deal. But I didn't see it that way, to me it was life changing, I saw it as leaving the home I grew up in my whole life, the home my dad built by himself, and the home where all my favorite memories were. Moving into a new house is going to take a lot of time getting used to, it will be a different layout, so I won't know my way around in the dark, like I could in my old house, it will be a new location, so I will have to remember how to get there, instead of going there by habit. But over all it is a new start, which I didn't want but maybe I needed.