How do I get over being homesick? =(

Question

I grew up in a beautiful city where everyone knew eachother and was very friendly. I had a big family, and we often got together every weekend for a barbeque and my cousins and I would often go to our grandparents house together after school.

I had to move out of state when I was going into third grade, and now I'm in highschool. I live four hours away from home, but I've noticed I miss it more as I grow up. We can't visit that often either because of work. How do I get over it?

Answer 1

Try getting out there (where you currently live) and making lots of great friends. Hopefully if you can make some really good supportive friends, then they can make up for your family, and you could even meet their families.

Answer 2

go on a vacation home

Answer 3

Discover you.  When you do, you become your own best friend.

Create your new life.  Your old life is of the past.

Allow yourself to become an adult and embrace the new reality you have created.  Your family taught you to create your own family.

Become the Central Train Station of your new family. Become the host of your new future, where gatherings inspires.

You miss your family reunions because now you are an orphan.  Become a leader and help orphans like you to become a member of your clan.  A clan of humans in awe of the brilliance of the human brain.

Answer 4

I think it's sweet that you care about something that much. I was homesick as a child too when we moved, but now as an adult, I have so many worries like bills and stuff. Being homesick would seem like a luxury now.

Answer 5

go home

Answer 6

for most people you will always remember and maybe even miss  where your from, just try to focus on where you are now. Thats what i do and i'm in another country thousands of miles from home.

Answer 7

i went through a similar phase when i started high school and my cousins moved away. you cant really do any one thing to make yourself feel better you just have to realize that things are different so that's really hard but eventually you will get used to it. i still talk to my cousins every day and theyre a plane ride away so i only see them once a year and it's really different and hard but since they moved away so long ago that i just think of them as living far away and it doesnt make me sad anymore. you just need to accept the fact that it is going to be hard for a while and its totally okay to be homesick but you still have your family who loves you and you know your cousins miss you too and you can still talk online! i hope things get better for you

Answer 8

it is made worse when you dwell on it

you have been gone so long that I think something else is going on  

Answer 9

Home sickness is something u create yourself. It's really all in your head but if hat doesn't help just try to forget about it. Find something bright about where you live now.  

Answer 10

Well, maybe you could visit during the summer? Just remember all the good times you had, and what good times you can make now.  

Answer 11

Can you go stay with relatives?  over the summer..for a weekend? Are there buses to and from? Bring a cousin or friend up to stay with you? What about family reunions? How often is not often? Is this just something that has come up recently?  Has this been going on this intensely since 3rd grade?  Have you experience a set back recently that   has caused this loneliness to re-surface?  that is my guess. I can't imagine feeling so lonely for so long a time and not figuring out a solution.  good luck with it.

Answer 12

Everybody goes through this.  It is a part of life.  Try to make your new home, "home'.

Answer 13

take two aspirins; and call me in the morning!  

Answer 14

The best security blanket in life is our families and homes. As we grow, and journey to find our path in life, we miss that safety, security, and all the good things from loving family, we miss.May I suggest bringing a bit of home to you, by decorating your new home to look a little like home, a fav plant, furniture,pictures and anything to make you smile, and move on, without this sadness holding you back, I wish you best of luck, and happiness.

Answer 15

Look at pictures, call up some old friends from there.

Think about how nice it was there, but also consider the nice things about where you live now. Then smile and be happy with where you are and the friends you now have and know that the city you came from was a great part of your past, and that someday you will visit again and it will be nice.

:)