The Questions · the self · the states
Where do your days actually return to?
There is a condition you keep coming back to when nothing in particular is happening. You did not choose it. You have simply been living in it long enough that its readings stopped registering as readings.
Home is wherever you have been living, whether you chose it or not.
Home is made by residence.
Stay anywhere long enough and its readings become your normal.
What this settles
Which means the state you return to is a fact about where you have been, not a verdict about who you are — and it moves by being lived in, not by being decided.
Not this question
So is there a right home?
Also in this footing, and a different question. It answers that in a well-governed life home is content — but home is still made by residence, not by design.
Also asked as
- Who are you becoming while you're not watching?
- Your mellow low. The place you think best from. Is that a lean — or a state you've lived in long enough that it feels like home?
- Where does a person actually rest — the state that's best, or the state they've lived in longest?
Where this is worked out
Home Is Wherever You Have Lived
Who Are You Becoming While You're Not Watching?
Where Do Your Days Actually Return To?
Is the Good Life Something That Happens to You?
Does the Self Ever Actually Break?
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Home
The state your days keep returning to, whether you chose it or simply lived there long enough that its readings became normal. All 2 questions here have been worked through.