Time and Space Oddness

I've been feeling a bit odd since getting back from Worcester. I realise that I've also spent time this year in Weymouth where I spent lots of time as a child and teenager and I've been living in Guildford for two years now, a town I lived in at the end of my teens and early twenties.

What they all have in common is that they've changed and all the people I knew aren't there any more. At least if they are they aren't visible to me. I also visit my daughter in Epsom regularly and I have a similar thing there.

It feels a bit like I imagine it would if one were a ghost - I walk around familiar places, but the people I knew aren't there and then I turn a corner and suddenly there's a completely different landscape where I was expecting a well-loved old building. I think it's remarkable to be having this experience in different places. I'm sure it's just part of getting old, but I think other people either stay in the same place and get to know new people as they go or else they move somewhere completely different and unknown to them.

I think the answer is to really get down to making some new relationships and memories here to feel more part of what's going on rather than just existing in another dimension.

Or something.