New Orleans is just a
place, really a geographically inconvenient one if we’re going to be honest. As
a home though, it’s different than other cities. They say that once you live in
New Orleans, you never really leave. It’s like a fly trap in that way, instead
of tempting bugs in with tasty nectar and then slowly digesting them, New
Orleans temps tourists with promises of parties and fun, and surprises those
who stay long enough to witness all the different levels of good times that it
has to offer. People who really call New Orleans home know that it has so much
more to it than what can be found on that one particularly famous street in the
French Quarter. Those who know what it means to miss New Orleans understand the
unique way that we treat each other, like everybody is one another’s friend.
For true New Orleanians, home is not just a place; it is the people as well.
Even though our city is sprawling, crawling, seeping out from the heart in Jackson
Square, we are all connected, courteous, familial. People like to say that home
is where your family is, but when you are in New Orleans, family is never very
far.
Bizzy, age 17
