home is the ultimate refuge from the chaos of the world
I’m flying to Japan next Saturday, but the ordeal just to leave the country already has me dreading the return. Two hours snaking through passport control, corralled like cattle, shouted at for glancing at my phone. Begging a barely-literate security officer for permission to enter a nation that should be grateful for my tourism. This isn’t safety; it’s ritual humiliation, calcified into “the new normal” since 9/11. Today in Houston, TSA lines stretch 3+ hours because unpaid screeners aren’t showing up. The system punishes the innocent to protect against a threat that’s now two decades old. Give me my quiet country house, a book, and the freedom to travel in my head. A peaceful home is the ultimate refuge from the chaos of the world.
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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