It means nostalgia for a place you've never been. Or people you've never met. Or maybe people or places that never existed at all. I mean, they're never as real as they are in your mind. Right?
Nothing’s wrong. But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyriend who lives far away when there’s a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It’s one thing Buddhists, Christians and Muslims are all worried about.
Our brains like stories that make sense, and one of the main differences between stories in real life and stories on TV is that stories on TV make sense.