A Home or a House?

A house can be lots of different things. It can be an itty-bitty cottage on a big mountain, or it can maybe be a giant mansion on a tiny island. It could be a short-one-story building with a singular inhabitant, or it could be a towering apartment housing lots of different people. But a home doesn’t have walls made of bricks or windows made of glass. It doesn’t have a roof made of tiles and floors made of wood. A home is a place where there are feelings and challenges. A home has tastes and sounds and memories. There’s love, and happiness, and excitement, and upbringings. There’s opportunity and joy and belonging and safety. You know where there’s a home when you feel all of those things, and no doubt that there would be millions of more! A house is a mere object, something you can sell, buy, shatter, destroy. When you think of the word ‘house’ you would probably think of something like a little suburban building with a big front yard and a dog running or cat watching through the window as the mail man came, but when you think of the word ‘home’ most people would think of their house, and their family. Except, a home can be anywhere. It can be in your house with your family, or maybe at school with your friends and classmates. Some people's home might even be in a little box on the side of the road in the rain, but it still has all their feelings, and loved ones and everything else they need for their safe place. So if you get to choose, where do you think yours is? Because it can be anywhere.