Word Two: Home

[lostinarcadia]

Home is - or should be - a place of safety, a refuge. Home is where, when you close the door, you feel you can just be yourself. It's the place where you have the key and get to say who comes in and who stays out. It's where you sleep. It can be a 40 room mansion, or a single room. Not all houses are homes, not all homes are houses.

Comments

[montjoye]

I so know what you mean about the 'feel' of a place. I remember one extended search for the next rental slightly despairing that I hadn't found one that I felt I could live in. Then the great and excited relief when I walked into a place I felt I could call home, and did for the next 12-18mths. Then a similar process when looking for a place to buy. This place called to me though it is on a main road-which was on my list of things i definitely DIDNT want. However, when I eventually decided to have a look on the way to a different place. Well, it spoke to me. I was back for a second viewing the next day.

It does however seem for me that my home is a solitary experience. Except for the budgie that is, and the visitors, need some of them too.