What crosses your mind
when you hear a word “ home”? You might
directly relate it to another word which has the same sense, that is family. It
makes sense since you have always been
taught to refer to a place where
you live with your family as a home. But sometimes, you can also associate it
with other places where your true friends are or wherever you can feel
comfortable at.
I have a mixed feeling of
happy, sad and hopeful whenever I hear that word. It should be understandable
since I live relatively far from home, that is 700 km away and 18 hours of bus
ride (by the way, It’s the easiest way to get there!) If I took a plane ride
with the same duration, I would have reached somewhere in Europe. Just saying.
Let’s go back to our main
discussion, Why do I always feel happy when I hear this very word? The answer
is simple because I feel grateful to remember that I always have a place to
come back whenever I want without being afraid of any rejections from the
people who stay patiently at a place I call home. I am happy to learn that
there is a group of people who will always care for me no matter what. A home
is where you can make a fresh start of anything which seems to have no way out.
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| “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss |
I can also be sad as I
live far away from my home. Don’t deny
it! Being away from the first people you love and who love you back with no conditions will always
leave this deep emotional feeling.
The hopeful feeling which
I have often takes place in times of sorrow and misery because I know it very
well that those people at my home will never leave me. You will only need hope
when you feel hopeless, won’t you? It’s so wonderful to know that they will
always be willing to spare time with me, only to listen to what I want to pour
out and to give me some advice that I need the most. As far as I am concerned,
only family who can provide it!
You think your friends can do the same as what
your family does? You should reconsider your deduction unless you have some
true friends who will let you hear the things that you need even
though it’s hard to swallow and not the things that you want to hear to feel better. Furthermore, you might want to give those “mean” friends a term that you will never dare to give to other
“good” hypocritical friends. That is the most
majestic term of all, a family.
Friends can only give you comforts but a family will never lead you astray, so surround yourself with people whom you can bravely call as a family who stay at a place you can call as a home.
Friends can only give you comforts but a family will never lead you astray, so surround yourself with people whom you can bravely call as a family who stay at a place you can call as a home.
