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He sat there and thought about what home meant. “Home,” in his life, was the word given to the house his parents had lived in. Adam didn’t get to have one of those. Where they were was “home,” and where he was was always somehow somewhere else.
Adam searched for the word to describe the nostalgia for things you never knew.
It was different for a while, when he changed jobs. The surge of enthusiasm, the sudden lightness of a new life had made him more willing to take small chances and engage with people. It had, he reflected, probably made him more fun to be around. For a short period.
Sehnsucht. That was the word, wasn’t it? Unusually short for a German compound word with a complex meaning. Nostalgia for a distant country to which we have never been, but which nonetheless may be home. An intense yearning for a comforting alien perfection.
