Feels Like Home

According to Google, the definition of home is “The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.” Great! All you need to get one of those is to hop onto some real estate marketplace and choose one! Easy, right? But using that definition, some people’s “homes” don’t feel like home. Your home should be the main place where you feel comfortable and accepted. It should be somewhere that's accessible to you, and everyone else who shares it with you. And it should be somewhere that when after a long day, you’re excited to come back, because it’s your home. But some people don’t have that. Some people’s “homes” are where they dread going at the end of the day (if they were even able to leave in the first place) because whoever sold it “forgot” to tell them that the doors aren’t wide enough for their wheelchair. Or maybe their “home” is simply far too small to be comfortable for their family. Maybe they’re bouncing from rental to rental because the rent keeps going up every 3 months. So even if they technically have the definition of “home” it doesn’t feel like the word they would use to describe it. This is why Habitat For Humanity’s mission is to make sure everybody has a real home. The kind of place where they can go and feel like they belong. A place that feels like home. The kind of place they’re happy to stay up late at night watching movies in a living room that they were able to access easily. The kind of place that they eat dinner at a table that their whole family can sit around. That’s what home should feel like for everyone. The kind of place that feels like home.