What is home?
It's defined as
--the place where one lives permanently, esp. as a member of a family or household
--The family or social unit occupying such a place
--a place where something flourishes, is most typically found, or from which it originates
It's related to where one lives, ones own country and its domestic affairs
It's known as a place one returns to by instinct to its territory after leaving it.
You can "home" in on something, move or be aimed toward something with great accuracy and focussed attention on
You can be at home (in one's own house) in ones own neighborhood town or country
You can make yourself at home, someone may invite you to make yourself comfortable and at ease in their home.
You can bring something home to someone. Helping others to realize the full significance of something. You can drive something home, or hit home.
Home can be where the heart is, the place you will always feel the deepest affection no matter where you are.
Home has a lot to do with comfort, peace, a place of familiarity in all things. Can you be away from home and still feel at home? What if you really never feel at home anywhere? Do you ever feel comfort and peace? If home is where the heart is... what if your heart is broken... is your home broken too?
If you try to return to your home of childhood, but it has become unfamiliar and uncomfortable, can you really say you are going home?
Home is a fragile place, even though it can be a tangible place, I think it is more of a state of mind.
I can be at home sitting at a table anywhere with my closest friends. I can be at my house and not really feel at home at all. I can feel at home when I'm standing all alone in a place I've never been before as I watch the familiar sun setting low over the Pacific Ocean. I may not have been there before but it is a familiar view. I feel at home when I withdraw into my own mind. I've overcome any feeling of homesickness because home is where I am able to have a calm peaceful mind. I can find home when I tune the world out and listen to my favorite song.
Home is not a place, it's defined by the feeling I carry at the time. It's where I am happiest. If the world overcomes me and I lose that peace, I can withdraw and always find home somewhere inside my soul. It took me a long time to realize that, but now that I have, I can come home whenever I want no matter where I am...
