What Home Means To Me

What is the definition of a home? Well, there is actually quite a large difference between a house, the physical place in which you dwell, and your home. One can have a house that they feel unsafe in, or where in which they only live temporarily and don’t feel attached to. This does not make it their home. The place you call home is not necessarily the place in which you dwell. Home is like your comfort zone, where you can feel safe, feel protected, let down your guard and be yourself. Some say “home is where the heart is”, which can be interpreted in two ways. The first way is the literal, gory and morbid interpretation, but the second, metaphorical and figurative one is the version I prefer to believe and will address. Home should be where your soul rests, the place you think of when you are in need. Theoretically, home is actually a place in your mind, an instinct of safety and satisfaction, a feeling of what you love. It is a figurative place in your life that you feel you are in during certain points of your lifetime, a place you can always return to. Home is what helps make you whole. I feel that those whose houses are their homes, and those whose homes contain their families, are fortunate. Everybody deserves a home, no matter who they are or where they are from. Our homes contribute to who we are, and no one should be denied the right to have one. Therefore, I hope that by writing this, I can help Habitat for Humanity provide people houses that may become their homes, and help people understand what home means to me.