The Significance of Home

A good home is where you feel most safe and loved. It is both material and immaterial. It's a place where you eat and sleep, but it’s also where the people you love most are. Home is a caring and understanding place and it doesn't matter if you're different, because your family loves you just the same. Home is where you can lounge around and read a good book, while smelling the wonderful aroma of your Mom’s homemade dinner, or eating ice-cream on a summer day's eve. This is what home means to me. While people who grow up in a loving environment often turn out to be good and kind people, those who don't can end up being sad and lonely. Therefore we should attempt to help those who are in need of a home. Those who don't have a residence usually feel like they are missing something in life, but for those who do have a house, that void is filled with gratitude. This is demonstrated in a book series called, “The Boxcar Children”, in which there are four orphan siblings who are living in an abandoned boxcar. They feel sad and empty and are longing for a home. Fortunately, their grandfather finds them and adopts them, and that emptiness is filled with thankfulness for their new dwelling. Often those who do have housing take it for granted and don't think about those who don't. Sometimes I look out on a stormy winter’s eve and think of those who are homeless or in drafty, cold lodgings and feel compassion for them. Thank you Habitat for Humanity for devoting time and money to helping those in need. I hope more people will recognize and contribute to your noble goal.