Salt Box

Home sweet home, but for how much longer?. I've grown up under the roof of 6944 Bonnie Brae Lane for the last 20 years of my life. It is the only home I have ever known. But it recently came to me that my parents, who have been empty-nested since I've been at school, will not live there forever. The thought of moving is alien to me. This is my house...nobody else's. The thought of some stranger family living under this roof, with some drooling baby making my bedroom smell like diapers, some suburban dad neglecting the handiwork my own father has done on the house...the list goes on. One year from now I don't know where I will be. Two years from now I don't know where my parents will be. Three years from now I have no idea who will be living in this house.