Home

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.

“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.