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user-inactivated  ·  4115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What does the word, "Home" mean to you?

For me I have different kinds of 'home'. There is the place of residence 'home', which is obviously my apartment. Then there's places where I feel like home, to different degrees. A place I feel like home is a place where I can be myself without consequences, where I'm not limited in my expressions. It is interesting the way we attribute places to feelings. For me I feel at home when I'm at my rowing club, as I can be myself around my friends there.

What places have emotions attached for you? Why is it there that you feel like home, what makes it different? What are the boundaries of the home, does it end when you step outside?





humanodon  ·  4115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, all kinds of places have emotional attachments for me and I'd wager that's true for most people, if they stop to think about it.

I feel strangely at home when I'm traveling. Especially when I'm in transit alone. Usually, I am lost again when I arrive at my destination.

When I'm in front of people a lot-- either presenting, teaching or performing (or all three) then I usually feel very powerful and at home.

As for a physical place, at my paternal grandfather's tomb I always feel a sense of time and belonging. Maybe because we only go there on the anniversary of his death or his birthday, or that other family members are laid to rest nearby, but I feel like it's something of a landmark for me and not only because it's got (or had, maybe that's changed) the tallest cross in the cemetery.

Home for me is not located in any one place, though I have certainly met many people for whom that is the case. A part of my home is my imagination. And why shouldn't it be? It's where I've spent the most time, after all.