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Headley in the Rear-view Mirror
Direction and wind without destination
Some of the excitement had worn off after four years of living in the town of Headley. Sanderson had never stayed in one place for long throughout his life. The excitement of moving to a new place is what he sought. Usually, he would stay in a new home through the four seasons of a year then he was itching to move to a new town.
He had now been through sixteen seasons in the same place and he craved the excitement of change. For Sanderson homeostasis eventually led to depression. Every time he had stayed in one place for more than a year his life went into a downward spiral. In his entire life the longest he had ever stayed in one place was three years.
And now he was finishing his fourth year in Headley.
There was nothing to keep him there. He had no family there and in four years he had not made any close friends. He did not own a home or business there. He had been working at his current job for two years and was bored out of his mind with it. While everything was new and exciting that first year, everything was now old and boring and irritating. Sanderson could not think of a single reason to stay any longer.
Perhaps the reason he had not yet left Headley is because he did not know where to go next. In the past he had…
