Home
It’s definitely an arduous task to define “home”. I would attempt to say that home is one’s personal territory. The problem with this definition is that it can be much more than a place. The sense of home develops out of several circumstances, which include all kinds of experiences we have through life.
The real value of home is sometimes hard to define because it is a very subjective concept, which can have all sorts of meanings, according to the person who’s expressing his/her opinion. I would also add that, even so, it can be rather ambiguous as one can feel home in so many different ways depending on the life stage he/she is passing through.
When thinking of home, the common sense tends to associate it with a cosy place, where we can feel comfortable and safe. Such a place is, most of the times, the first house we live in because it’s where we our family and our whole life are. We know that door will always be opened for us to come in and say “Hi! I’m home!”.
As far as I’m concerned, home is much more than that because you can feel at home even in a distant place. Or you can have a place which is really special for you and which you can call home. Someone said that “home is where the heart is…”. Well, our heart can be anywhere in the world… Even in the strangest places…
The whole idea of home is connected with a sense of belonging not only to a place but also to a set of circumstances which we associate with that particular place. These circumstances can be either material or spiritual just like feeling at home can be either physical or emotional.
Taking everything into account, the main question is: What does home mean to you? A place? A person? A feeling? A scent? A song? A still unanswered question?
Ana Rita Faustino
2007-03-11
The real value of home is sometimes hard to define because it is a very subjective concept, which can have all sorts of meanings, according to the person who’s expressing his/her opinion. I would also add that, even so, it can be rather ambiguous as one can feel home in so many different ways depending on the life stage he/she is passing through.
When thinking of home, the common sense tends to associate it with a cosy place, where we can feel comfortable and safe. Such a place is, most of the times, the first house we live in because it’s where we our family and our whole life are. We know that door will always be opened for us to come in and say “Hi! I’m home!”.
As far as I’m concerned, home is much more than that because you can feel at home even in a distant place. Or you can have a place which is really special for you and which you can call home. Someone said that “home is where the heart is…”. Well, our heart can be anywhere in the world… Even in the strangest places…
The whole idea of home is connected with a sense of belonging not only to a place but also to a set of circumstances which we associate with that particular place. These circumstances can be either material or spiritual just like feeling at home can be either physical or emotional.
Taking everything into account, the main question is: What does home mean to you? A place? A person? A feeling? A scent? A song? A still unanswered question?
Ana Rita Faustino
2007-03-11
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