Where will Home Be?

I don’t know if I am the only volunteer asking this question or not.  Where will my home be when I return.  In two years so much can change, there are babies and marriages and new jobs and the thing is life truly doesn’t stop.  While in Peace Corps you may be on a spiritual journey, or on a journey or the mind and heart, but you really are in the same place with the same group of people.  Your life does have a pause button on it.  And the thing is part of me believes that I will be able to return home and go back to the way things were, although I shall have some cool stories to tell, but I know that’s not the way it will be.  In just the last year 2 friends of mine have gotten married, and one will be married at the end of July.  One of my friends has moved away, people have gotten sick, and all this other stuff has just happened.  I know that is how life works and that nothing ever stands still for you.  What I do know and I can take comfort in is that fact that people don’t change, personality wise.  Although their cercumstances may change who they are doesn’t change.  Now the bigger question is whether or not your experience will change how you feel about that person’s personality characteristics.  I don’t know.  I think I will have to find out.