What is home?
I think home has a different meaning for everyone and that it can be a bit weird to think about what it means for anyone else. I think home does not really exist. I think it is a concept that we as humans created with our ability to create and think for abstract things.
This is interesting to me because home is something that most people claim to have. Does this mean that it is the same for everyone. Some people think of home as a house or a physical place. I think that home is something different than that. For example, I have a house and so do many other people, so does that mean that their houses are my home. NO, of course not! Homes can change as well. I know from personal experience. I use to live in a house off of 59th street and grew up in that house. Then one day I moved into a new house and everything seemed different and like it would never be okay again. However after a while I started to sleep better in this new house and then started to call and think of it as my home. My old house was no longer my home. So what changed?
I think what changed for me and why I started to think of this new house as home was that fact that I could now start sleeping better and was more relaxed in this new house. This seems to be a security thing and something that is different for every person.
Another point that can be made is that even being rootless, one can have a home. For example, Gypsy cultures move around a lot but seem to have a home. I think the reason that this is that they have family and friends that move around with them. I strongly believe that this would be different if the people from the Gypsy culture move away from each other and were on their own. The reason this is a bad thing is that, the culture will slowly be lost within future generations. The culture will slowly change into something different and the ties to the original will be lost.
So it culture always changing and is this go? I'll get back to you on that one.
