*going to be kinda long, and people probably won’t read this but it’s ok ! but if you do read it, please read all of it ! ☺️* (READ POST BELOW ITS PART 2 !!)
hello, this is amelia! I would like to start by saying thank you for a 100 reads on my poetry/drabble/thoughts/wtfidontevenknow book! It may not seem a lot to others but it is for me! And for the people who voted on it, I sincerely say thank you I recently have been changing my profile name quite a lot, due to the unsatisfactorily feeling I had with them. While searching the web for ‘beautiful words’ (though definitely up to preference) I came across the word hiraeth. Hiraeth is a welsh word which has no exact translation but there are multiple ones for which people have come up with, most are like the other. A translation which I commonly see is ‘a deeper homesickness to return to a place you cannot return to, perhaps to a home that never was. The nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past’. As a welsh person, I was quite excited to see it was on a list of beautiful words. I knew that it would already been taken so I was thinking of a way to make it more altered to me, then I realised that I could do that without even needing to change the word that much. I have 3 vowels in my name - aei. That’s why my username is ‘hiraeith’, it includes the 3 vowels in my name and a word of a feeling that I have many times in my life (even though I’m not even that old ) I think this year I want to experience many new things and I no longer want to feel this ‘homesickness’ type of feeling. Instead, I would rather want to feel the opposite of that.