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Opposition Op-Ed: Leave Your Hometown Friends behind

People always view the past as the ‘good old days’, however, these same people forget that there are many good days ahead of them. This applies to how some people view their hometown, and especially, their hometown friends. I am here to say that leaving your hometown is the best thing you can do. Leaving your hometown friends is in the natural progression of life. Your hometown is the stepping stone to bigger and brighter things, and leaving for college is just the start.

I am by no means the only one who thinks that leaving your hometown is necessary, a blogger from the website SOCIETY19, Casey Duby asserts that “there is an entire world outside of your hometown, and you won’t know what’s really out there for you until you experience it.” If you stay in your little bubble then the only thing that you are going to acquainted with is that bubble. This claim cannot be contested on the fact that expanding your horizons opens many doors. These doors include meeting new people, having experiences that you can’t have in your quiet hometown such as going to new and exciting restaurants, there are very few limits. When leaving your hometown friends, it is sad, but leaving makes it possible to grow into a better-rounded adult. Having diversification of friends from many places rather than all being from the same hometown gives variety in life. Leaving your hometown is an investment, at first, it may start off rough, but soon the investment starts to compound into new experiences and new relationships that you would not make in your hometown. These experiences can go from being introduced to new cultures to meeting new people who would never pass through your small hometown in the suburbs of New York. Leaving your hometown isn’t just to change the scenery of where you live, it is to develop who you are as a person. On the blog Odyssey, blogger Emily Shellenberger emphasizes that your hometown friends limit you in some ways. Since hometowns are generally not metropolitan areas, you are expected to fall in line with the norms of the community. When you leave your hometown you are free of all restrictions and allowed to grow into the person you want to be. I support the fact that leaving your hometown friends allows you to expand who you are outside of the constraints. These constraints could include the type of activities the group only does to not being able to do things that only you are interested in. With a smaller population, there is less of a chance to find people who are interested in the many things that you are also interested in. When moving away from your hometown friends you are more able to find those who are passionate about the same things as you are. The added freedom gives you as a person more access to mold yourself into the person you want to be, not into the person others want you to be like.

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