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Hi, well sorry this is gonna be slightly off topic for the 'life in Japan' type post.

News has recently come in that this house has completed the first process of being sold- i.e. someone's agreed to buy it, whose surname is not Deacon.

That's right, my parents are selling their house, my childhood home which- up until the age of 19 I'd lived in all my life [which was when my gap year commenced so to speak].

I know this has been coming for a long time, in fact since I was still a teenager. But it's weird to think that in a few months, another family will be occupying that. Well, not so much that, but that my 'home' center of gravity will have moved somewhere westwards, somewhere which is currently a ? , only a place God knows the whereabouts of yet.

Despite having had said 'goodbye' to my bedroom before I left a couple of weeks ago (the first people came to value the house not long after I arrived back in Japan after Christmas & new year), yesterday I was still trying to get my head around it. I realised that I'll never sleep in my bed in my bedroom- my old bedroom, again. In fact I woke up early this morning, thinking I was back there. Then I quickly came around to realising I was in my apartment here instead.

I feel fortunate that I've lived in the same place all my life. When I was 6, we thought we might go to Guildford for a bit or something. But more so than that, I remember thinking wistfully about my cousins' exciting sounding life in Indonesia for most of the year, and England just in the summer. But really I like knowing where home always is & never having had to move schools or make new friends because of moving house as I was growing up.
Plus, I've never fully had to pack up all my belongings and take them somewhere else. I've only done a bit of that going to uni & Japan, a task which I feel bad my parents will have to do in my absence in the coming future.

Yet this is exciting too. I'm glad Mum & Dad are moving somewhere they both want to go to, in a different part of the country, close to people they love or would like to be able to see more of. It'll be hard to move completely away from this place, but hopefully God has been and is currently preparing the ground for them.
Hmm, I should probably go to bed now. I may post this up in a few days once word has got around a bit, otherwise this might be a bit strange/ inappropriate.

Good night.