…for the particular feeling you get when you’re back home after a substantial time away: simultaneously as though you were gone even longer than you actually were, and as though you never really left.

Is there?

3 Responses to “There ought to be a name”

  1. Lori Says:

    I bet there’s a word for that in German!

  2. Catherine Says:

    Though it does not precisely fit, i would have said that i was “nostalgic for the present” or something similar. Thereby meaning that I was missing something that was currently happening, though I am not exactly sure if that was the feeling you were looking for.

  3. nicola griffith Says:

    Yep, it’s called jetlag /grin/.

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