Did you notice that you really cannot go back to a childhood home...?

i went back to my childhood home last month cos i happened to be in the neighbourhood.. i moved out 12 years ago, when i was 11

anyways, the playgrounds were all different now, i can't find my then-best friend's house and when i went to my then-home, their dog barked at me!

i was so overwhelmed by all the changes that i cried

i looked for my other friends but it semed that they have all moved out.. some shops are still the same and the same people are still working there but they don't remember me!

Yes, I remember my hometown as being a pretty little town with lots to do, then I graduated high school and moved away and didn't come back for about 3 years and when I did come back, it didn't look so pretty, in fact most of the houses are old and dilapidated and there isn't anything to do at all!!! Even the little park there that I used to have fun at isn't all that great. I guess after you grow up and see the "real" world outside of what you have always known, your perspective changes.

Yes true. The house I grew up in was torn down, a power company sub-station is where ours and another home was. They also blocked the intersection. A terrific way to wreck a neighborhood, it is now a drug-gang infested area. This is in a suburb of Detroit. Detroit has now passed ten mile road. Eight Mile was the boundary, nothing but burned out cars and houses into the suburbs now..

it is true everything changes and nothing is ever the way you remember it as a child . we went back to my childhood home along time ago and we found that everything had changed including our home someone redid the whole thing and we felt like we were lost . We found out some of our friends were dead that we did not even know about . so yeah absoloutly you cant go back . good luck .

Yes, I remember the same thing happened to me. I went back to a childhood park recently and I was surprised when I saw it again. Seemed so much bigger when I was a child.

My son is 25 years old and lives 50 miles from me. He hasn't lived at home since he went to college in 1999.

He comes home sometimes to hang out (Mother's day, father's day, Christmas) and he says it feels so weird because things have changed. His bedroom. How the dog greets him. The smell in the house.

oh yea...I totally know what you mean, everything is bigger when your a kid. Recently I got married and lived with my parents until the wedding....in the same room I had had since we moved into that house when I was 8....I walked in it a couple days after the wedding and even tho it was EXACTLY as I had left it....it felt completely different....thats when it really hit me I was married!

The same thing happened to me. We went back to our childhood home, which is still our occupied by my grandma, and I used to love being there and now its not so exciting. Also all th etoys I had were not so pretty as i used to belive. :)

But the memories stay and that is what matters to me.

Yes I have noticed and sometimes the memories are just painful enough to keep you from going back.

everything is huge when your a kid isnt it! i remember going on a particular walk when i was a kid and going up what i thought was millions of steps. i went back a few weeks ago and its about fifty! lol i certainly seemed more when i was a kid. everything changes when you grow up. shame really. being a kid is loads of fun!