Home, home, home

Have you ever wondered what the meaning of home is? The meaning of home is a shelter to me, a place to have your alone time when sad, a place to throw anger on top speed, a place where you can have the best of life. Home is magic where you feel good to leave and feel better to come back. Home is where a heart nestles and grows. Home is especially where you were meant to be when born. Home is the only place you learn, and grow. Home is where you can be the most comfortable of ever being anywhere. Home is a place to enjoy your life, grow your life and increase your choices of having a better life. Home is the protection of your knowledge, your hope and especially you. Home is the birth place of your creativity, wisdom and love. To paraphrase the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, home is your place of hopes and dreams, your home was made of bricks and beams. Home is a shelter, I repeat, a shelter that holds still, no matter how tempestuous life’s storms can be, no matter if it goes blown away or decayed, no matter if you do whatever to it, except when you mean to smash it to pieces. Shelter is a dwelling where you dwell forever. Home gives you all your memories, food, life, warmth, and enjoyment. No matter how plain your home is, your home is still a home. Where you can enjoy and create, home is really great. No matter what you think about where you live, where you grow, where you enjoyed what you could, you still have to appreciate home. Every single letter of home means something. H, hope a home can always give you hope in yourself because home can be anything from a party to a cosy hideout. Oh, okay! Home can also always convince you to do anything you don’t want to do, for example to spend some time out with your friends in the rain. M, more. Home can always make you willingly let you get more and more friends and family time with you because being comfortable by yourself would mean being even more comfortable spending time with friends and family. E, ecosystem. Home can always make you do at least one thing good for the earth to help the ecosystems that helped you make your home. Because without earth which is basically a big ecosystem, you wouldn’t have space to create a place for a cosy home. So if you help other small ecosystems, the longer you can have your home protected from being torn apart! Home is not a place to fear your talents, a place to deceive yourself, a place to learn how to be a bully at school. Home is not a toy which you try your best to destroy as much as you can. All the letters of nothing similar to home can also represent the difference of home and “fake home.” N, no. You can always know what is home and what isn’t home by what your heart says. Either yes or no. If no, of course, whatever you find is not a home isn’t a home. O, obviously. It is always obvious to tell what is your home or not because you can always remember what it looks like when you see another house--of course you know it isn’t your house! T, tickle. Whenever you see something you don’t like, don’t you feel a cold tickle running down your back? Or just a tickle down your spine? This feeling can always tell you that something is wrong, or that you shouldn’t be there because, of course, you feel bad only when you are doing something bad; for example, finding something that you think is your home which actually isn’t. Couch-surfer! Couch-potato! But one thing you must always know about your home is the reason it was built. No matter if that means you had to go closer to your school, or just to get a pet dog or some llamas. All you have to know is the reason you chose this or that home. Here’s why: If you knew the reason you chose your home, you would have a deep connection to your friends and family by getting organized and not being stressed about why you made a specific and big decision. You shall never get lost in your own neighborhood even if you see a house similar to yours. Your house is your brain, meaning you would never forget what your house would look like. Since now you know what home means to me and the reason it’s important, the one and only thing you should know is why you chose to live there. For all these reasons, as the saying goes, “There’s nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

Yvonne

Grade 4

Surrey, British Columbia

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